Concurrent versus simultaneous polydrug use: Prevalence, correlates, discriminant validity, and prospective effects on health outcomes

Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 353-364

  Earleywine, Mitchell ^b   Newcomb, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CANNABIS; COCAINE; ILLICIT DRUG; PSYCHEDELIC AGENT;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DRUG ABUSE PATTERN; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE DRUG ABUSE; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ALCOHOL DRINKING; EDUCATION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MARIJUANA ABUSE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 0030671382     PISSN: 10641297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1064-1297.5.4.353     Document Type: Article

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