Data triangulation for substance abuse research

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Martijn van Hasselt. Addiction. 2021 Oct.

. 2021 Oct;116(10):2613-2615.

doi: 10.1111/add.15596. Epub 2021 Jun 22.

¹ Department of Economics, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, USA.

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Keywords: Data triangulation; population survey; sampling bias; substance use; survey non-response; under-reporting.

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Response to Braillon (2021): No, not the exception.
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Pathways to drug prevalence estimation: synthesizing three comments on triangulation.
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Heroin use cannot be measured adequately with a general population survey.
Reuter P, Caulkins JP, Midgette G. Reuter P, et al. Addiction. 2021 Oct;116(10):2600-2609. doi: 10.1111/add.15458. Epub 2021 Mar 27. Addiction. 2021. PMID: 33651441

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