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- Title
RESEARCH GRANTS AND DRUG SELF-HELP PROGRAMS: WHAT PRICE KNOWLEDGE?
- Authors
Fry, Lincoln J.
- Abstract
Based upon 14 months of participant observation in a patient-run drug rehabilitation program located in a mental hospital, this paper is concerned with the impact of certain kinds of funding arrangements upon self-help programs. The findings reported support Cloward and Piven's (1974) contention that large research grants reflect the interests of professionals, not those of the groups that the projects are supposed to serve. Grant-funded activities eventually coopted a self-help program's leadership, and research infringed upon program activity. Funding priorities alienated the institution's treatment staff and contributed to competition between the self-help program and the other drug units located in the institution's treatment complex. The implication of this case study is that self-help programs are not likely to maintain their organizational integrity when implemented by the use of large research grants.
- Subjects
RESEARCH grants; MEDICAL rehabilitation; SELF-help techniques; PEOPLE in recovery from drug addiction; REHABILITATION of people with drug addiction; FINANCE; SUPPORT groups
- Publication
Journal of Health & Social Behavior, 1977, Vol 18, Issue 4, p405
- ISSN
0022-1465
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2955348