International addiction researchers’ perspectives on the needs of persons with addictions, the use of neuroscientific research for prevention and treatment, and future foci in addictions research

Figures & data

Figure 1. Needs of addicted persons regarding treatment approaches according to addiction researchers.

Figure 2. Needs of addicted persons regarding support and other societal responses according to addiction researchers.

Table 1. Participants’ characteristics.

Participants’ characteristics		N	%
Gender
	Male	127	66.8
	Female	61	32.1
	Unknown	2	1.1
Continent/Country of workplace
Asia	India (2), Israel (3), Jordan (1), Turkey (1)	7	3.7
Australia	Australia* (9), New Zealand* (1)	10	5.2
Europe	Austria (1), Belarus (1), Belgium (1), Denmark (1), Finland (7), France (6), Germany (10), Italy (8), Netherlands (9), Norway (2), Poland (2), Russia (1), Spain (1), Sweden (5), Switzerland (3), United Kingdom* (22), Ukraine (1)	81	42.6
North America	Mexico (1), Canada* (6), United States of America* (79)	86	45.3
South America	Brazil (2), Chile (2)	4	2.2
Unknown	Unknown	2	1.1
*Thereof:	Anglophone countries	117	61.6
Academic degree in^a
	Humanities	19	10
	Business	4	2.1
	Education	2	1.1
	Law	3	1.6
	Life sciences	45	23.7
	Health Sciences	65	34.2
	Physics/mathematics	6	3.2
	Social sciences^b	99	52.1
	Thereof^b:
	Psychology	74
	All others except psychology	32

^aAccording to categories of bepress Taxonomy of Academic Disciplines [39]; multiple possible.

^b7 participants with psychology plus other social sciences degree.

*Marks all anglophone countries. The values (n and %) are summarized in the last line of the Continent/Country of workplace-section (below ‘unknown’).

Table 2. Addiction researchers’ opinions on future research priorities.

Basic approaches for future research priorities	Mentions
	N	%
Integrated bio-psycho-social approaches	60	45.1
Psycho-social aspects only	25	18.8
Neuroscientific & genetic approaches & medication development only	17	12.8
Other contributions^a	31	23.3

^aCould not be assigned to the above topics.