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Peer reviewedKohn, Paul M.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1979
Methadone clients scored higher than controls on measures reflecting boredom, desire for change and attraction to physically thrilling activities. Correlations of these measures with length of most recent dependency before treatment, time on program, and time since initial dependency suggest peculiarities of methadone clients antedated involvement…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Drug Addiction, Drug Use, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedKohn, Paul M.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1979
Determined what kinds of experience seeking are related to drug use using Pearson's Novelty-Experiencing Scale, Pearson's Desire-for-Novelty Scale, and Vando's Reducer-Augmenter Scale. Drug use was most frequent among men attracted to unusual states of consciousness and physically thrilling activities. They were stimulus-intensity reducers, and…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Drug Abuse, Drug Use, Expectation
