Brem, Meagan J.
Shorey, Ryan C.
Anderson, Scott
Stuart, Gregory L.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (K24AA019707)
Article History
First Online: 1 June 2017
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: Gregory Stuart started conducting psychoeducational treatment groups for patients at Cornerstone of Recovery for a maximum of 4 h per week. None of this research project pertains to any of the psychoeducational groups. Dr. Stuart does not ever do any study recruitment, is not informed which patients do or do not participate in research, and does not mention anything about research to the patients attending groups. Ryan Shorey started working as a research consultant at Cornerstone. There is no restriction on what Dr. Shorey can publish and his research consultation does not influence the study results in any way. Dr. Shorey does not interact with Cornerstone patients. Dr. Shorey has reported all of his consultation activities to Ohio University and no concern about financial conflict of interest has been raised. Scott Anderson is employed as the Chief Clinical Officer/Clinical Director at Cornerstone of Recovery. Dr. Anderson’s positions do not influence the study results in any way. Meagan Brem declares no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: This study was funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) grant number K24AA019707.