Re:I am a heroin user. I do not have a drug problem
by bostonsre on Friday February 19, 2021 @12:41PM
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Yea, I would be very interested in the methodology they used to come up with that 70% and I am wondering if that is a snapshot in time or is that over someone's entire life. Addiction almost always starts out in a more controlled manner until its not. So if 50% of those 70% of drug users become full blown addicts, then its a BS number. I'm also really curious how they found those high functioning drug users, because I can't imagine anyone that is successfully hiding their use from the world would divulge it to anyone they don't know or trust ("hey, are you a high functioning drug user?" sounds like something a cop might say).
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Re:I am a heroin user. I do not have a drug problem
by boomboomsubban on Friday February 19, 2021 @04:15PM
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Both the "snapshot" studies and the lifetime studies find similar rates of addiction, I went and found part of what he's referencing.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/...