Ready for Retirement: The Gateway Drug Hypothesis

Substance Use and Misuse

Volumn 50, Issue 8-9, 2015, Pages 971-975

  Kleinig, John ^a,b  

^a JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE   (United States)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

criminalization; dependency; drug use policy; gateway drug hypothesis; gateway metaphor; Jr.; licit illicit distinction; marijuana; Robert L. DuPont

Indexed keywords

STREET DRUG;

CANNABIS SMOKING; DISEASE COURSE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

DISEASE PROGRESSION; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MARIJUANA SMOKING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STREET DRUGS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 84941370270     PISSN: 10826084     EISSN: 15322491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10826084.2015.1007679     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Robert L. DuPont, Jr., Getting Tough on Gateway Drugs: A Guide for the Family (Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press, 1984).
2. Bob DuPont, Personal Communication, September 24, 2014.
3. Edward Brecher, Licit and Illicit Drugs: The Consumers Union Report on Narcotics, Stimulants, Depressants, Inhalants, Hallucinogens, and Marijuana-Including Caffeine, Nicotine, and Alcohol (Boston: Little, Brown, & Co., 1973), Ch. 2.
4. N.E. Zinberg, Drug, Set, and Setting: The Basis for Controlled Intoxicant Use (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984). Editor's note.
5. Nicholas Rescher, Risk: A Philosophical Introduction to the Theory of Risk Evaluation and Management (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1983);
6. Sven Ove Hansson, "Risk", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2014 Edition), ed. Edward N. Zalta, URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2014/entries/risk/.
7. M.A. Bachhuber, B. Saloner, C.O. Cunningham, and C.L. Barry, "Medical Cannabis Laws and Opioid Analgesic Overdose Mortality in the United States 1999-2010," JAMA Internal Medicine 174, no. 10 (October 2014): 1668-1673.
8. At a Department of Defense News briefing, available at: http://www.defense.gov/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid =2636.
9. My thanks to Shlomo Einstein for many helpful comments.