Clinical trials as treatment option: Bioethics and health care disparities in substance dependency

• Published in: Social science & medicine (1982) Vol. 69; no. 12; pp. 1784 - 1790
• Main Authors: Timmermans, Stefan, McKay, Tara
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01.12.2009; Elsevier; Pergamon Press Inc
• Series: Social Science & Medicine
• Subjects: Addiction; Bioethical Issues; Bioethics; Biological and medical sciences; Clinical trials; Clinical Trials, Phase III as Topic - ethics; Conflict of Interest; Drug abuse; Drugs; Ethics; Health care; Health Services Accessibility - ethics; Healthcare Disparities; Human subjects; Humans; Interviews as Topic; Medical research; Medical sciences; Medications; Methamphetamine; Miscellaneous; Pharmaceutical industry; Primary care; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic - ethics; Research Design; Research Ethics; Research Subjects - psychology; Researcher-Subject Relations; Social research; Substance Abuse; Substance dependency; Substance-Related Disorders - therapy; Teaching. Deontology. Ethics. Legislation; U.S.A; United States; United States of America; USA; USA Clinical trials Pharmaceutical industry Human subjects Research ethics Substance dependency Bioethics; United States; North America; America; United States > US; Human subjects; USA; Substance dependency; Clinical trials; Bioethics; Research ethics; Pharmaceutical industry; Human; Social Inequality; Care; Ethics; Treatment; Scientific research; Dependence; Clinical trial; Social medicine; Public health

Bioethicists have warned against the dangers of mixing research with treatment. They are concerned that research priorities may take precedence over individual patient needs and that research subjects tend to misunderstand the purpose of research or overestimate the direct medical benefits of partic...