“He’s used drugs – he’s biased! He’s not a drug user – what would he know!”: A cross-sectional, online study of drug researchers’ experiential knowledge of drug use and disclosure

Abstract Introduction: Despite the recognized value of experiential knowledge, drug use and disclosure of drug use within the drug research community is rarely discussed or studied. Methods: We distributed a cross-sectional online survey using targeted recruitment. Researchers provided information on drug use, disclosure of use (or abstinence) professionally, and their impact via write-in text boxes. We used the general inductive approach to analyze the data. Results: Of the sample (n=669, 43 countries), 52 % were cisgender women, 89 % had