| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | Verschiedenes
Lessons learned — and lost — from a Vietnam-era study of addiction
Lessons learned — and lost — from a Vietnam-era study of addiction
(…) The team’s finding that the availability of a given drug is a key to how much it’s used is obvious and uncontroversial. The rest of what they learned was not.
Eight to 12 months after the soldiers returned to the U.S., Robins and her team conducted confidential interviews and requested urine samples for drug testing. Surprisingly, they learned that heroin use was uncommon, even among those who had become addicted in Vietnam. In the first year back home, only 5% had relapsed to addiction. (Stat News, USA, 19.07.2021)
https://www.statnews.com/2021/07/19/lessons-learned-and-lost-vietnam-era-addiction-study/