Book contents
- The Life of the Heroin User
- Series page
- The Life of the Heroin User
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Heroin and addict ‘careers’
- 2 Parents and childhood
- 3 Early teenage years: the onset of substance use
- 4 Themid to late teens: commencing heroin use
- 5 The 20s and 30s: heroin and polydrug use
- 6 Thedrug treatment cycle: remission and relapse
- 7 Theolder heroin user: the 40s and beyond
- 8 Death: rates and causes
- 9 Conclusions: an inevitable life and death?
- References
- Index
3 - Early teenage years: the onset of substance use
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
Book contents
- The Life of the Heroin User
- Series page
- The Life of the Heroin User
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Heroin and addict ‘careers’
- 2 Parents and childhood
- 3 Early teenage years: the onset of substance use
- 4 Themid to late teens: commencing heroin use
- 5 The 20s and 30s: heroin and polydrug use
- 6 Thedrug treatment cycle: remission and relapse
- 7 Theolder heroin user: the 40s and beyond
- 8 Death: rates and causes
- 9 Conclusions: an inevitable life and death?
- References
- Index
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- The Life of the Heroin UserTypical Beginnings, Trajectories and Outcomes, pp. 34 - 49Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011