Competing accounts of the gateway effect: The field thins, but still no clear winner

Addiction

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 473-474

  MacCoun, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS; DRONABINOL; ILLICIT DRUG; MORPHINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; AUSTRALIA; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; CANNABIS ADDICTION; DRUG ABUSE PATTERN; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG MARKETING; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GNAWING; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LICKING; LOCOMOTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PERSONALITY; RAT; REWARD; RISK; SENSITIZATION; SNIFFING; TWINS;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; MARIJUANA ABUSE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RISK FACTORS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 33644862451     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2006.01428.x     Document Type: Note

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