| Article ID: | iaor1989368 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 25 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 649 |
| End Page Number: | 662 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1988 |
| Journal: | Journal of Applied Probability |
| Authors: | Billard L., Dayananda P.W.A. |
| Keywords: | social |
A drug addiction process in which individuals in a closed population can become addicts or pushers is modelled. Expressions for the state probabilities and factorial moments are obtained. A generalized model is also developed. This generalized drug addiction process can be viewed as a particular case of what may be called a competing death process.