Admissions being rescinded.

multicultural
Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:27:50 +0000

Also I work in the Clinical Psychiatry Research Unit at the UVA hospital. We have tobacco/weed smokers fill out questionaires like how much weed they smoke a day (hits/day, days/week, etc.), their cravings, their habits and so on. This allows us to evaluate data used for the study (for our current research, we’re clinically testing two addiction-reducing drugs and their potential interactions, synergistic or inhibitory).

As far as I know, no one subpoenas us for the data.

Is the Unit doing something illegal? I mean, aren’t these guys essentially confessing to illegal activity?

I don’t think so. Which is why the Unit is allowed to run and why our MTC study is approved by the Institutional Review Board (and why I have a job).

I mean yeah, there’s patient confidentiality and so on, but IIRC confidentiality can easily be overridden with a subpoena.