Follow-up of 97 young non-psychotic male opiate abusers: relationship between achieving abstinence, age, and duration of abuse.
Ninety-seven young non-psychotic men with intravenous opiate abuse, who had been admitted to a psychiatric hospital, were seen at follow-up 3 years after admission. All were traced. At follow-up, 19% were abstinent, 9% had died, whereas the remainder were still addicted. Those who had become abstinent had done so around the age of 20 and/or before they had been addicted to opiate for 3-4 years, almost  regardless of the time at which their total drug abuse had started.
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications; D002188:Cannabis; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008238:Lysergic Acid Diethylamide; D008297:Male; D009021:Morphine Dependence; D009892:Opium; D011379:Prognosis; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D013997:Time Factors
D009892:Opium; D008238:Lysergic Acid Diethylamide