Hughes P H, Jarvis G K, Khant U, Medina-Mora M E, Navaratnam V, Poshyachinda V, Wadud K A
Bull Narc. 1982 Jan-Mar;34(1):1-12.
The underground nature of drug abuse is a major cross-national barrier to the collection of sound epidemiological data. The authors examine some common patterns of secrecy developed by drug abusers to avoid social disapproval or punishment in different socio-cultural settings. Assurances of anonymity and confidentiality may not be sufficient to make the majority of heavy drug abusers "visible" to the researcher. One way to overcome this barrier is to train field staff to recognize certain ethnographic signs i.e. the specific appearance and behaviour of drug abusers that can facilitate identification of target populations.
药物滥用的隐蔽性是收集可靠流行病学数据的一个主要跨国障碍。作者研究了药物滥用者为避免在不同社会文化环境中遭到社会反对或惩罚而形成的一些常见保密模式。保证匿名和保密可能不足以使大多数重度药物滥用者在研究人员面前 “现身”。克服这一障碍的一种方法是培训实地工作人员识别某些人种志特征，即药物滥用者的特定外貌和行为，这有助于识别目标人群。
