{"id":3982,"date":"2018-09-22T06:09:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T22:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bridgesofhope.com.ph\/?p=3982"},"modified":"2018-09-22T06:09:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T22:09:10","slug":"alcohol-real-gateway-drug-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bridgesofhope.com.ph\/index.php\/alcohol-real-gateway-drug-legal\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcohol is the Real Gateway Drug–And It’s Legal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Real Gateway Drug is Legal–and It’s Alcohol<\/p>\n

Marijuana used to get the rap for being the gateway drug. However, recent research<\/a> has shown that many people start out with alcohol as their first substance. Marijuana and tobacco were the second and third substances of choice respectively.<\/p>\n

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In the study, alcohol was the first substance used by over 65 to 68% of participants. On the same vein, many young people today drink alcohol in the form of binge-drinking<\/a>.<\/p>\n

New Research Points to Alcohol as the Real Gateway Drug<\/h3>\n

Dr. Denise Kandel, a psychiatry professor at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, along with Edmund A. Griffin and other psychiatrists and neurobiologists, published a paper that “cemented the validity of the gateway hypothesis.”<\/p>\n

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In the study, it shows that alcohol affects the brain, which amplifies cocaine’s effects and make them biologically more vulnerable to addiction.<\/p>\n

This also makes it possible how people may also have polysubstance abuse disorders, in which they abuse two or more substances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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