Addiction Research Methods (eBook)

Peter G Miller is NHMRC Howard Florey Fellow in the School of Psychology at Deakin University, Australia. He is Commissioning Editor for the journal, Addiction. John Strang is Professor of the Addictions and Director of the National Addiction Centre, University of London. He is also Clinical Director of the addictions treatment services at the South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Peter M Miller is Professor of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Addictive Behaviors.

Foreword.

Griffith EdwardsSection I Introduction.

Chapter 1 How To Ask a Good Question and Then Give a Good Answer: The Art and Science of Good Research.

Section II Research designs.

Chapter 2 Choosing the best study design.

Chapter 3 Reliability, validity and qualitative rigour.

Chapter 4 Ethical considerations in Drugs research.

Chapter 5 Experimental Designs.

Chapter 6 Non-Experimental Designs.

Section III Basic toolbox.

Chapter 7 Sampling strategies.

Chapter 8 Questionnaire design.

Chapter 9 Interviewing techniques.

Chapter 10 Qualitative methods.

Chapter 11 Conducting clinical research.

Section IV Biological methods.

Chapter 12 Psychopharmacology and Neurotransmitter research.

Chapter 13 Imaging.

Chapter 14 Genetic methods.

Chapter 15 Animal models.

Section V Specialist methods.

Chapter 16 Treatment outcome research.

Chapter 17 Needs Assessment.

Chapter 18 Epidemiology and/or Secondary data and official statistics.

Chapter 19 Meta-analysis and/or Cochrane reviews.

Chapter 20 Drug Trend monitoring.

Chapter 21 Drug Policy Research.

Section VI Analytical methods .

Chapter 22 Quantitative analysis.

Chapter 23 Qualitative analysis.

Chapter 24 Publishing and Other issues.

The final word