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Hser, Yih-Ing; Longshore, Douglas; Anglin, M. Douglas – Evaluation Review, 2007
This article discusses the life course perspective on drug use, including conceptual and analytic issues involved in developing the life course framework to explain how drug use trajectories develop during an individual's lifetime and how this knowledge can guide new research and approaches to management of drug dependence. Central concepts…
Descriptors: Drug Use, Social Capital, Guidelines, Drug Addiction
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Hser, Yih-Ing; Huang, David; Chou, Chih-Ping; Anglin, M. Douglas – Evaluation Review, 2007
This study investigates trajectories of heroin use and subsequent consequences in a sample of 471 male heroin addicts who were admitted to the California Civil Addict Program in 1964-1965 and followed over 33 years. Applying a two-part growth mixture modeling strategy to heroin use level during the first 16 years of the addiction careers since…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Narcotics, Drug Addiction, Followup Studies
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Anglin, M. Douglas; And Others – Evaluation Review, 1993
Reliability and validity of self-reported behavior within a deviant population are examined using data from 2 interviews with 323 narcotics addicts conducted 10 years apart (1974-75 and 1985-86). Results complement existing reliability and validity studies of alcohol use, and suggest that quality information can be obtained from heroin users. (SLD)
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Drinking, Drug Addiction, Evaluation Methods
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Powers, Keiko Ichikawa; Anglin, M. Douglas – Evaluation Review, 1993
Whether methadone maintenance treatment demonstrates cumulative (rehabilitative) or stabilizing effects on behavior of narcotics addicts over multiple treatment episodes was studied involving 993 addicts in a quasi-experimental design. Observed behavioral changes and longitudinal self-reports indicate stabilizing, but not cumulative, effects. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adults, Analysis of Variance, Behavior Patterns, Crime