The Gateway Drug Myth

Tags: Interventionism, Big Government, Health

05/17/2019 Chris Calton

The Time magazine article creating “the gateway drug” myth in the 1970s provided no citations for its claims, except ambiguous references to unnamed “experts.” The evidence remains elusive forty years later.

Original Article: “The Gateway Drug Myth”.

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