Eighty-one high school students were surveyed regarding their attitudes on nine factors regarding the alcoholic and his alcoholism, and the drug abuser and his drug abuse. Analysis of the data indicated that on eight of the nine factors the students tended to view the two pathologies in essentially the same way. On the remaining factor a significant difference was obtained on these students belief's regarding the alcoholics or drug abusers periodic-continuous abuse of these substances.
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