Doubt cast on ‘gateway drug’ theory after large study of adolescent brains

By |2025-01-15T03:01:42+00:0015 January 2025|

A study has found that the structural difference in the brains of people who use drugs may be present before experimentation with substances, casting doubt on the contested gateway theory that soft drug experimentation leads to harder drug use. Scientists studied the brains of nearly 10,000 [...]