Sequential Patterns of Multiple-Drug Use Among High School Students
Archives of General Psychiatry February 1, 1977 Leroy C. Gould 34 citations
Multiple-drug use follows a progressive pattern, with users typically moving through a sequence starting with alcohol and marijuana, then hashish, barbiturates, amphetamines, LSD, mescaline, cocaine, and finally heroin. This finding comes from a 1972-1973 survey of 1,094 high school students in greater New Haven, Connecticut. Cigarettes and glue did not fit this sequence. The order in which students reported starting each drug only partly matched the progressive pattern identified by scalogram analysis.