Evaluating the drug use "gateway" theory using cross-national data: Consistency and associations of the order of initiation of drug use among participants in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

Louisa Degenhardt*, Lisa Dierker, Wai Tat Chiu, Maria Elena Medina-Mora, Yehuda Neumark, Nancy Sampson, Jordi Alonso, Matthias Angermeyer, James C. Anthony, Ronny Bruffaerts, Giovanni de Girolamo, Ron de Graaf, Oye Gureje, Aimee N. Karam, Stanislav Kostyuchenko, Sing Lee, Jean Pierre Lépine, Daphna Levinson, Yosikazu Nakamura, Jose Posada-VillaDan Stein, J. Elisabeth Wells, Ronald C. Kessler

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