Addiction Research Methods

The addictions and alcohol and other drug (AOD) sector covers a vast array of disciplines and methodologies. Many of the techniques used in the understanding of drug use are essentially the same as those used in other fields, while others are special in both their design and their samples. In no other field of enquiry has there been such a multidisciplinary approach to the development of research methods and sampling techniques. For many in the field, this multidisciplinary reality is perplexing, making it challenging to truly understand the relationships and synergies between very different pieces of research on the same topic...

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