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Which drug is considered to be a gateway drug to other drug use?
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∙ 12y ago
Marijuana is considered by many as a stereotypical gateway drug, but it is only a myth. Not everyone who smokes weed will use stronger drugs.
In fact a majority of injected drugs users will answer yes if you ask them is they tried marijuana or alchool in the past. BUT you can also ask that question to your coworkers and a majority of them will answer yes too. There is no reason to think marijuana will lead to more and no scientific study result confirming a positive link between theses drugs.
The main reason why a drug user will try another drug is the availability of the drug in the area where they are living. dependently of the area and years the drug use portray differ.
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Alcohol is used as a gateway drug?
It all depends on the person. A gateway drug is a drug that people start using and then begin to use other stronger drugs once the "high" of the initial drug isn't enough.
Is LSD gateway?
A gateway drug is defined as one that leads to the use of other drugs. Generally LSD is not considered to be a "gateway" drug because it a much more mature and complex drug with relatively stationary set of users. -- Psychedelic drugs are used almost exclusively by persons under 30 years of age. There is a strong correlation between LSD and other drug use. A total of 12,721 Brazilian university students participated in this study... hallucinogens, were used both before and after other illicit drugs without any marked predominance for either of the two roles. -- However the use of the drug has been considered to be a "gateway" to another world by many of its users. Timothy Leary and Aldous Huxley both used LSD to enhance the mind and claimed that it could alter perceptions into a entirely new reality.
What drugs refer to types of drugs that lead to the use of other types of drugs?
Technically any drug can be a gateway drug. There are alot of accounts of people that never do any drug but then they get a hold of a hard drug at a young age and it just takes off from there.
Why is marijuana called a gateway drug?
Though there are correlations between marijuana use and further use of other drugs, there is no conclusive evidence that one actually causes the other. The science on this topic is far from settled.
What factors may make a drug a gateway drug?
There is no such thing as a ( gateway drug ). Some people would tell you that marijuana is a gateway drug that will eventually lead to other types of drug abuse and that is not always true. Some people who start abusing drugs do not start out on things like marijuana. I have talked to people who have NEVER used marijuana and have a bad addiction to methamphetamine, narcotic pain relievers such as lortab, percocet, and other types of (pain pills), heroin, LSD, and many other commonly abused drugs. So you cannot label a specific (drug) as a gateway drug because of the high percentage of people who start out using drugs by doing other illegal substances. With saying that there is a percentage of people who do start out using marijuana and other less (hard) drugs that do move on to bigger things, but at the same time there are ALOT of chronic marijuana users that never use any other drugs.
Can text messaging be considered as a drug?
No unless you are obsessed with your phone and use it every minute of every day of every hour then it is considered a drug
Is smoking considered a failed drug test?
If they're testing for tobacco use, then yes you'll fail a drug test by smoking. Normally they don't test for it--tobacco's legal--and cotinine doesn't cross-react with other drug tests.
Why was Vienna so important to the ottoman empire?
Because the Ottoman Turks considered Vienna as the ' gateway' to the hart of Europe. A conquest of Vienna would mean that Turks could use the gateway to march to France, Italy or Germany.
What is a drug that introduces people to drug use and increases the rick that they will try other drug?
pot!
Is dolo neurobion a drug can you take it while pregnant?
Diclofenac injection is not considered to be safe during pregnancy. The benefit risk ratio to be considered before use of the same drug. You can use pentazocin instead, in most of the cases.
Is marijuana a stimulant or gateway drug?
The thinking behind the gateway drug theory is that by experiencing "being high" for the first time on Marijuana it might make that person more curious about other types of highs from different drugs and thus they will begin experimenting with those drugs. This has probably happened to people before, but many people who smoke Marijuana don't go on to try harder drugs.AnswerMarijuana is not a gateway drug. There is no such thing as a gateway drug.People say that marijuana is a gateway drug, because the vast majority of people who are addicted to hard drugs (like heroin, cocaine, or speed) begin their drug use with marijuana. However, this does not take into account that countless people begin their drug use with marijuana, but never use, or become addicted to, hard drugs.Have you ever heard the saying, "All poodles are dogs, but not all dogs are poodles?" In other words, yes, most drug addicts begin their drug use with marijuana, but that doesn't mean that everyone who uses marijuana will become a drug addict. Saying that everyone who uses marijuana will become a drug addict is like saying all dogs are poodles.The truth is that marijuana is the least harmful drug you can use. It is virtually impossible to overdose on it -- the only marijuana death I have ever heard of was a five year-old girl who died after eating a pound (yes, a pound) of marijuana that her mother had baked into some brownies. It is virtually impossible to die from smoking or ingesting marijuana, not counting lung cancer and other smoking-related diseases.Because it is the least harmful drug you can use, and because it is the most commonly used drug (besides alcohol), it is usually the first drug people try when they begin experimenting with drugs. Some of them go on to be drug addicts, but the majority don't. The majority just stick to marijuana, and never try anything else (or, try harder drugs, but don't get addicted to them).Additionally, it is very hard for a non-drug user to find out where to buy hard drugs like heroin, cocaine, or speed. You have to know people, in order to be given the number of a drug dealer. So, a non-drug user will have a very hard time beginning his drug use with, say, heroin, because he won't be able to find a dealer who sells it. But since so many people smoke weed, it's relatively easy to get in touch with people who smoke it, and who know where to buy it. And once you've started hanging around people who smoke pot, eventually you're going to meet someone who knows where to get harder drugs. No one is going to give you the number of a heroin dealer, unless they trust you, and believe you're not a police officer. And no one is going to trust you, and believe you're not a police officer, unless you smoke marijuana and hang out with other people who smoke it.For example, let's say that 100 teenagers tried marijuana for the first time today. In five years, 10 of them (10%) will be heroin, cocaine, or speed addicts. The other 90 (90%) continue to smoke pot (or don't), but never become addicted to hard drugs. If you look only at the 10 who became drug addicts, you might say, "Hey, look, all these drug addicts began their drug use with marijuana. That must mean that marijuana use leads to heroin/cocaine/speed addiction!" No, it doesn't. Out of those 100 teenagers, 90 of them did not become drug addicts just because they used marijuana.Therefore, the theory of "gateway" drugs is completely, absolutely, 100% false.
Why is the use of club drug rohypnol considered an example of drugs synergy?
Rohypnol is often mixed with alcohol, and so it is considered an example of drug synergy.
