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Download full textSmith, S. Mae; Miller, Eva – 2000
The effects of drug abuse and dependence vary, depending on the type of drug, polydrug use, and characteristics of the user. The influence of genetic, neurochemical, neuropsyiological, sociocultural, and economic factors suggest that the etiology of substance abuse and dependence is multiply determined. Models explaining the causation of substance…
Descriptors: Cocaine, Drinking, Drug Addiction, Individual Characteristics
Pohl, Melvin I. – 1992
After defining HIV and the AIDS disease and outlining symptoms and means of infection, this fact sheet lists the ways alcohol and drugs are involved with the AIDS epidemic, noting that needle-sharing transmits the virus; that alcohol or mood-altering drugs like crack cocaine cause disinhibition, increase sex drive, encourage sex for drugs, and…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Alcohol Abuse, Alcohol Education, Alcoholism
