■尽管经验知识具有公认的价值,药物研究界很少讨论或研究药物使用和披露药物使用情况。
■我们使用有针对性的招聘进行了横断面在线调查。研究人员提供了有关药物使用的信息,专业披露使用(或禁欲),以及它们通过写入文本框的影响。我们使用一般归纳法分析数据。
■在样本中(n=669,43个国家),52%是顺性女性,89%的人接受过研究生教育,79%在学术界工作。大多数(86%)报告终生使用药物,47%报告过去3个月使用药物。在557名使用药物的研究人员中,59%的人向机构同事透露了他们的用途,59%给机构外的同事,25%的研究参与者,和11%的研究/奖学金。主题包括频率;背景;个人药物使用披露的含义,专业,和社会;以及药物使用经验和披露如何为研究提供信息。受访者将他们对研究中披露的担忧与社会认同问题联系起来,专业风险,以及与生活经验相关的污名作用。一些受访者认为,这种担忧加剧了真空,注意到无法披露药物使用限制了研究问题和总体知识库。
■我们的发现支持了围绕吸毒经历的思想二分法:\“[他们]使用了药物-[他们]有偏见!\”和\“[他们]不是吸毒者-[他们]知道什么!\”我们的发现提供了一个机会来反思我们的立场以及研究人员自己的药物使用可能对该领域产生的影响。
UNASSIGNED: Despite the recognized value of experiential knowledge, drug use and
disclosure of drug use within the drug research community is rarely discussed or studied.
UNASSIGNED: We distributed a cross-sectional online survey using targeted recruitment. Researchers provided information on drug use,
disclosure of use (or abstinence) professionally, and their impact via write-in text boxes. We used the general inductive approach to analyze the data.
UNASSIGNED: Of the sample (n=669, 43 countries), 52 % were cisgender women, 89 % had post-graduate education, and 79 % worked in academia. Most (86 %) reported lifetime drug use and 47 % past 3-month use. Among 557 researchers who used drugs, 59 % disclosed their use to institutional colleagues, 59 % to colleagues outside their institution, 25 % to research participants, and 11 % in their research/scholarship. Themes included frequency; context; meaning of drug use
disclosure personally, professionally, and socially; and how drug use experience and
disclosure informs research. Respondents connected their concerns about
disclosure in research with issues of social identity, professional risk, and the role of stigma related to lived experience. Some respondents felt that such concerns reinforce a vacuum, noting that the inability to disclose drug use limits research questions and the knowledge base overall.
UNASSIGNED: Our findings support the dichotomy of thought surrounding the lived experience of drug use: \"[They\'ve] used drugs- [they\'re] biased!\" and \"[They\'re] not a drug user-what would [they] know!\" Our findings provide an opportunity to reflect upon our positionality and the impact researchers\' own drug use may have on the field.