Heroin Use

Identifying the casual factors associated with heroin addiction would constitute a major advance in efforts to eradicate heroin abuse as a social problem (Gossop, 1991, pp. 11511160). Heroin addiction, however, is attributed to a wide range of factors by different authorities on the issue (Strang, 1992, pp. 473483).

There are four general groups of theories explaining the development of substance abuse behavior including the abuse of heroin. These theory groups are as follows: (1) learning theories holding that persons learn to use heroin and other substances as a means of coping, and holding further that such use eventually becomes addictive; (2) physiological theories holding variously that nutritional deficiencies and genetics lead to substance abuse behavior including heroin addiction; (3) psychoanalytic theories holding variously that childhood experiences, selfdestructive drives, feelings of inferiority and

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negative stress outcomes. All that is required is for an organism to perceive them as being damaging. 2. Stress outcomes are not always negative. Some are neutral, and some are positive. 3. The probability of occurrence of negative stress outcomes increases with an increase in the quantity of stressors in the environment. 4. The extent of damage resulting from the perceived presence of stressors in the environment tends to increase, as the quantity of stressors perceived to be in the environment increases 5. A given quality or quantity of stressors in the environment will not produce similar stress outcomes in all individuals. 6. There are no stress quality or quantity threshold levels, above which negative stress outcomes will be induced in all individuals. Extensive research was initiated and conducted in the 1960s and 1970s relative to the relationship between stress and life events. One research study (Rabkin and Struening, 1976, pp. 3154) developed the Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS). Several studies were subsequently conducted, using the SRRS as a basis for investigation. The research performed for these studies was retrospective in character, and asked subjects to report (1) illness histories,
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