title: Heroin abuse indicators: a test of recent assumptions.
abstract: Recent substance abuse literature discusses the measurement of heroin abuse prevalence using an indirect method of indicator analysis. Medical and legal indicators are assumed to be related to each other and to prevalence in specific directions. The present study tests the relationship between six commonly used indicators. The results indicate that not all assumed relationships are obtained in the predicted direction and implications of this for future prevalence study are discussed.
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D003932:Heroin / Q000032:analysis; D006556:Heroin Dependence / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D007880:Legislation, Drug; D008824:Michigan
chemical_list: D003932:Heroin