Do you have a loved one that uses alcohol? (Research Study)

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Do you have a loved one that uses alcohol? (Research Study)

Manon · Guru

this is not a reasearch place we are not ginea pigs try to find what you need else where this is a group that is confidential in many ways ty for trying and wish you luck

avid · Guru

Thanks for saying what I felt Manon.

Raman · Guru

Or is the person that posted the request a recovering person his/ her self ?

LeeU · Guru

Legitimate research helps to (1) improve treatment (2) reduce stigma and ignorance about addictive disease (3) fund programs (4) influence state and federal policy, like the recent gains in parity in insurance coverage (5) apply the ESH shared by the on-the-ground experts like you and me where it can do some good and (6) save lives.

It is voluntary participation ...they are only reaching out...no guinea pigs involved!

This is the Internet...NOTHING is confidential here...we have no expectation of that on this or any other site!!! But the study participation info is confidential, and that can be assured...the review board can be e-mailed for details.

Compared to some research of a few decades ago (yeah, I'm that old) this solicitation is, to me, both a sign of respect and intelligence...20 years ago, we would never even be asked to participate!!

Think about it...would you rather have the opportunity to have your voice included in studies intended to benefit people, or would you rather be excluded by virtue of not even having the choice?

Interestingly enough, I'm helping to write a proposal for a grant right now that requires documented input from the "target population", which happens to be 18-24 year-olds. If my agency gets the money, we will be able to provide new services to young adults who seriously need and deserve them...and currently there are no such services.

So...how am I going to get that input? I'm probably going to have to post something like this on sites like this, using the same survey generator that this University is using, in order to reach out to large groups and get any response. And I expect I'll get some negative responses...but i see nothing wrong with simply"asking", which is all these folks are doing.

Manon · Guru

pete townson said he was doing doin research too so we could always go that way I do believe it is even adressed in the concepts of NA as well the only rules I have ever followed in my life
we ar etho by constituion able to say what ever we want which some ppl would need to choose there words more wisley

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