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Nor did her team’s analysis show that heroin use was a response to intolerable circumstances, like the stress of war, although her research has recently been advanced as evidence for that idea. Veterans who became addicted to heroin began to use it early in their tours of duty in Vietnam, typically before they were in combat. And, as Robins pointed out, there was no “dose response.” In other words, more time at the frontline didn’t correlate with a greater likelihood of using heroin — which would be expected if the stress of war was to blame. Robins also found that even though some veterans returned to occasional use once they were back home, they did not become addicted again.