Internet Survey Tracking ‘Successful’ Drug Users Via the Web

OPEN MINDS The Behavioral Health Industry Analyst Industry News Drug users can now be tracked on the Internet. The survey, “Drugnet,” aims to track patterns of drug consumption among a population that researchers refer to as “the largest population of drug users in America, people who use drugs in a controlled, limited way, who's central focus of not drugs, but their families, friends and communities.” According to Drugnet researchers John White and Tom Nicholson, both professors of public health at Western Kentucky University the anonymity of the Net could provide research from drug users, who would otherwise be disinclined . . .