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  • "All the King's horses and all the King's men... ": What is broken should not always be put back together again

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    Devilly, Grant James
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    Devilly, Grant J.
    Year published
    2018
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    Abstract
    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 ...
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    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. Here I respond to concerns raised by Miller and colleagues. First, I provide a context and common ground for this debate in the specific domain of Queensland. Next, I look at the sample we acquired in comparison to Miller (2013), explain motivations for preloading, and why our results are different, as well as more reliable than those reported by Miller. I further point out why the lack of clarity around rejection rates is important and demonstrate that having police involved in such research is a good idea. I also address issues of misplaced concern in relation to the engagement of the energy drink industry and media, and the multiple charges of ethics violations implied in the commentary by Miller and colleagues. Taken together, I provide a corridor for future research, informed by the use of our scientifically reproducible methodology.
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    Journal Title
    International Journal of Drug Policy
    Volume
    51
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.11.020
    Copyright Statement
    © 2018 Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence, which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
    Subject
    Medical and Health Sciences
    Studies in Human Society
    Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
    Science & Technology
    Life Sciences & Biomedicine
    Substance Abuse
    Preloading
    Scientific method
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/386678
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