Our Research Responsibilities

Food prices, inequity, and our responsibilities.

Mumbai. This editorial comes to you from India. I am reading the lead article in The Times of India. This expresses concern that the nation’s growth rate is now at the rate of 8?7 %, compared with 11?2 % last year. Imagine a newspaper in North America or Europe complaining about annual economic growth of nearly 9 %! On the same front page another headline states: ‘Grain prices rising, set to so...

Recovery--reshaping our clinical and scientific responsibilities.

CONTEXT Advocacy for Recovery has been joined by research offering new perspectives on mental health policy, treatment, rehabilitation and anti-discrimination efforts. OBJECTIVES Chances and challenges of a Recovery model for the mental health field will be presented and discussed. KEY MESSAGES Recovery is currently widely endorsed as a guiding principle of mental health policy. New rules f...

Daughter's in AA ? What are our responsibilities as her family?

As you have come to know, coping with a family member's drinking problem can bring out many questions and challenges. As a parent, it's not unusual to want to do everything you can to make sure your child is successful in her efforts to address her drinking problem ? even if this child is herself an adult. It's also important to recognize that your daughter has to do this work for herself. As a...

STFM responsibilities for AFMO Research Strategic Plan.

Our Responsibility to Our Research Participants.

As the readers of this journal know all too well, conducting a study takes a lot of time, energy, commitment, and, most of all, work. I do not have to list the myriad steps that need to be taken, often with delays in between, to take a study from good idea to analysis. There are often sweat and tears, if not blood, and, at the end of the process, there may be exhaustion. Then the piles of paper...