title: Addict careers. II. The first ten years.
abstract: The varying life-styles of narcotic addicts in Baltimore during the first decade of their addictive careers are examined with respect to the following: (1) periods of addiction, (2) transitions from addiction, (3) periods of nonaddiction. Emphasis is upon the relationship between aspects of the life-styles and the characterization of addicts according to a typology based on the concepts of opportunity and motivation to use narcotics. What emerges is a general hypothesis linking social class, associated competencies, and pattern of addiction.
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology; D003415:Crime; D004651:Employment; D005190:Family; D006556:Heroin Dependence / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D009293:Opioid-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D011330:Prisons; D012923:Social Class; D013997:Time Factors; D014481:United States; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology