“All the King’s horses and all the King’s men…”: What is broken should not always be put back together again

Miller, Chikritzha, Droste, Pennay& Tomsen (2017) raise multiple methodological questions regarding our recently published study into the night-time entertainment districts (NEDs) of Queensland, Australia (Devilly, Allen& Brown, 2017). They also raise wider ethical concerns regarding working with police and allowing research participants to enter their own data into questionnaires. As reported in an earlier issue of this journal (Devilly et al., 2017), we conducted a point of entry study into NEDs which found: a high prevalence of preloading (79%); little meaningful difference between the genders in this prevalence and breath alcohol concentration (BAC); a much higher preponderance of people reporting to pre-drink for reasons of socialisation (rather than just price) compared to earlier research; and a large number of people to have no meaningful understanding of the BAC system.
Source: International Journal of Drug Policy - Category: Addiction Authors: Tags: Response Source Type: research