Are Addicts' Self-Reports to be Trusted?
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in International Journal of the Addictions
- Vol. 15 (8), 1265-1270
- https://doi.org/10.3109/10826088009040097
Abstract
A review of the literature and a report of an empirical inquiry both suggest that retrospective inquiries, based on addicts' self-reports, are, in very many cases, valid and reliable. The paper suggests that the relevant problem connected with addicts' self-reports is not whether they are to be trusted or not, but rather what types of questions and situations best lend themselves to be researched when using retrospective techniques.Keywords
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