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Co‐ordinating Drugs Research in Britain
Author(s) -
BERRIDGE VIRGINIA
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
british journal of addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0952-0481
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1988.tb00525.x
Subject(s) - government (linguistics) , medical research , exploratory research , political science , research council , public relations , public administration , medicine , social research , sociology , social science , philosophy , linguistics , pathology
Summary In 1986 three government agencies and two research councils put £50,000 towards an exploratory study of research into illicit drugs. The Home Office, Department of Health, Scottish Home and Health Department, Medical Research Council and Economic and Social Research Council funded an exercise designed to point to where more research was needed and to propose a practical programme. In June 1987, the funding partners decided not to fund a co‐ordinated programme of research. I was consultant scientific secretary on this aborted Drug Addiction Research Initiative. This article will survey what the initiative was; its findings and proposals for future development; and the problems inherent in this type of exercise, in particular for illicit drugs. I am grateful to the members of the Initiative funding consortium for allowing me to express my views and to draw on the report which was prepared; the views expressed here are, of course, my own.