Journal article
Using Trend Theory to Explain Heroin Use Trends
Journal of psychoactive drugs, Vol.33(3), pp.203-211
09/01/2001
DOI: 10.1080/02791072.2001.10400567
PMID: 11718313
Abstract
Trend theory is an effort to integrate histories of populations and distribution systems to explain the key epidemiological question: why do these people in this place at this time experience a rapid increase in heroin use? The theory grew out of work on heroin trends in the Baltimore metropolitan area, specifically on epidemics among urban African-Americans in the 1960s and among suburban white youth in the 1990s. This overview represents trend theory as an instance of agent-based adaptive models characteristic of complexity theory.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Using Trend Theory to Explain Heroin Use Trends
- Creators
- Michael Agar - EthknoworksHeather Schacht Reisinger - Friends Social Research Center
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of psychoactive drugs, Vol.33(3), pp.203-211
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- DOI
- 10.1080/02791072.2001.10400567
- PMID
- 11718313
- ISSN
- 0279-1072
- eISSN
- 2159-9777
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/01/2001
- Academic Unit
- Center for Social Science Innovation; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984094357402771
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