[JaisonT]

Hello,

My name is Jaison and I'm a single father currently in college. I'm a pre-med student and family member of someone struggling with a painful addiction to substances. In true recognition and respect for your "current" or former situation, I would greatly appreciate if you could briefly share your experience with me. I am doing a research assignment on substance abuse. My aim is to profile those struggling with substances. If you don't mind, could you participate in a brief and simple survey (about five minutes) about your experience. Please know that the survey is anonymous and truly respectful of your circumstances and situations.

Thanks and God's speed/Good Luck,
Jaison

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?s...bJBYmuRw_3d_3d

[JaisonT]

Thanks. I really appreciate all the survey responses I've received. I thank you for sharing!

Have a great day.
Jaison Taylor

[Sue13]

Originally Posted by JaisonT

Thanks. I really appreciate all the survey responses I've received. I thank you for sharing!



Have a great day.
Jaison Taylor

Hmmm Jaison, you are not googleable; I hope you are real and not just a way to get us to that website...

[Robert_325]

Originally Posted by Sue13

Hmmm Jaison, you are not googleable; I hope you are real and not just a way to get us to that website...

That is a good observation Sue. There are always people posting things on this forum as a means of getting IP addresses and what not. I wouldn't post or reply to anything personally that I couldn't verify in some type of search. surveymonkey.com .... c'mon give me a break! LOL Jaison may be just what he says but the world is full of scams and trusting people that fall for them.

I'm not answering any questions on a third party web site or doing any surveys myself when I don't know anything about who is doing it I can assure you of that. Especially not questions about "my story." Sorry but I won't buy into that one.

The second anyone logs into a web site like what is advertised here they have your IP address. I'm not paranoid, I just don't trust people who are seemingly ghosts. I make a point of watching stuff like this and if it goes ANY further than this I will contact admin immediately. God bless.

[JaisonT]

Robert/Sue13 - My apologies to either of you that I have offended or made suspicious in any way. I am SURELY not a spammer or out to pull any computer data from you or anyone for that manner. I'm truly as stated before, a college student with an assignment. Yes Susan, I'm not googleable; but just for my protection as I'm sure your name is not Susan. I thought this site would truly respect that tenet.

Please Sue/Robert - For as much as I respect your opinions, people like you thwart any efforts I could have made. For instance, I could care less about an IP address but what really bothers me is that out of the 66 people that's viewed my post. Only about 34 have participated in my survey, I assume due to your WARNING about my perceived intentions. Your assistance has costed me half of a sample of people that I'm already trying to approach appropriately and respectfully. Posts like yours hinders research in spite of your intentions and I'm the one that loses.

Robert - Surveymonkey sounds weird but is probably the most professional and organized program I could find to hold my surveys. I apologize for its weird name but if you google it; its simply a survey site for those trying to attain participation that way. If I could give you my full name, school, class, assignment, height and weight safely; I would in effort go get an "A" in this class, but as you said the world is full of untrustworthy people. Unfortunately, I lose because I assure you I'm not one of them.

I of all people tried to share as much of myself as possible in effort to ask for your help. With that Robert, please don't have me kicked off the site or reported as I've already done physical interviews with those battling substance abuse, including my dad (which is TRUTHFUL about me) and I was told that my sample is too small. I'm really looking for help and this appeared to be the perfect site to get some participation.

Robert/Susan - I would love for either of you to participate and be a witness for others that my surveys are not only harmless, but simple, non-offensive and pretty basic.

Please. I'm truly asking for assistance here.

Thanks,
Jaison

[mitchigan]

So what you're saying is even with the 34 responses you've got from this site alone, you still don't have enough? Hmmmmm.........

[Sue13]

Jaisin,

As a matter of fact I DID trust you and fill out the survey. I am personally pi$$ed off that these pain meds are so easily obtainable without a warning (they should carry something as large as they have on cigarettes) about the addiction factor. So, you may be one of the carriers of that message; if so more power to you!

Your post had the ring of truth, and you are right-I am not Sue. But living on the Internet, and in NYC for 30+ years, please forgive the caution.

Just this morning I saw on the news that they took (quietly and 2 weeks ago) the line out of the agreement that allows a person on Facebook to delete things. Alright, for me that horse is out of the corral anyway, but for my teenage granddaughters?

We are in a very peculiar age.

As for Robert's post above, he more than anyone, got me, a 63-year-old professional out of an AWFUL mess. I guess if one soul is saved by believing they can get help here, we cannot be too cautious about questioning people, even well-meaning (I think) people like yourself.

Sue

[Sue13]

Originally Posted by mitchigan

So what you're saying is even with the 34 responses you've got from this site alone, you still don't have enough? Hmmmmm.........

Actually Mitchigan, I was thinking the same thing-that 34 out of 66 is a phenomenal return. I should be so fortunate with my promo pieces!

LOL,
Sue

[JaisonT]

Sue,
I appreciate the response and will assure you that I'm legitimate. I could care less about an IP address. I appreciate your thoughtful words and encouragment.

Mitchigan - I was told that a sample of 100 would be really good but 150 (A+worthy). Nevertheless, out of the 34 that went in from this site; only about 14 completed the whole survey. I can only count complete surveys. Fortunately, in my physical interviews I received about 42 by visiting various centers and shelters around the area. So overall, I'm up to about 56 surveys that I can count.

Hopefully others will help out or return to complete their surveys.
Any suggestions regarding other sites or ways to get survey participants?

Thanks,
Jaison

[Robert_325]

Originally Posted by JaisonT

Robert/Sue13 - My apologies to either of you that I have offended or made suspicious in any way. I am SURELY not a spammer or out to pull any computer data from you or anyone for that manner. I'm truly as stated before, a college student with an assignment. Yes Susan, I'm not googleable; but just for my protection as I'm sure your name is not Susan. I thought this site would truly respect that tenet.

Please Sue/Robert - For as much as I respect your opinions, people like you thwart any efforts I could have made. For instance, I could care less about an IP address but what really bothers me is that out of the 66 people that's viewed my post. Only about 34 have participated in my survey, I assume due to your WARNING about my perceived intentions. Your assistance has costed me half of a sample of people that I'm already trying to approach appropriately and respectfully. Posts like yours hinders research in spite of your intentions and I'm the one that loses.

Robert - Surveymonkey sounds weird but is probably the most professional and organized program I could find to hold my surveys. I apologize for its weird name but if you google it; its simply a survey site for those trying to attain participation that way. If I could give you my full name, school, class, assignment, height and weight safely; I would in effort go get an "A" in this class, but as you said the world is full of untrustworthy people. Unfortunately, I lose because I assure you I'm not one of them.

I of all people tried to share as much of myself as possible in effort to ask for your help. With that Robert, please don't have me kicked off the site or reported as I've already done physical interviews with those battling substance abuse, including my dad (which is TRUTHFUL about me) and I was told that my sample is too small. I'm really looking for help and this appeared to be the perfect site to get some participation.

Robert/Susan - I would love for either of you to participate and be a witness for others that my surveys are not only harmless, but simple, non-offensive and pretty basic.

Please. I'm truly asking for assistance here.

Thanks,
Jaison

Jaison ... with all due respect it's not my responsibility to provide personal information for your project. You have no idea of the number of people who come on this forum under the false pretense of all of kinds of worthwhile projects. My position here is one of support for our members and my loyalty lies with them and the owners of drugs.com. I did not sign on here to make your project a success. I've seen people with proposals who are ultimately trying to gather information to spam members with payday loans and all kinds of garbage. So refrain from passing judgement on me when you know nothing about me and my commitment to helping members of this forum. You're out of line accusing me of thwarting your efforts. Life is full of challenges. My warning is based on previous proposals of similar appearingly worthwhile projects. I don't know you, you are probably a great guy, but this is the real world. I'm sorry you lose because of other untrustworthy individuals. But as you complete your education and enter the business world prepare yourself for things to not always go as anticipated.

I don't care about your height, weight and all the other meaningless statistics you brought up. I have no anonymity, it's unimportant to me. My real name IS Robert. But I do have a commitment to this forum. I'm sorry if my comments caused a bump in the road for your project but going on the offensive against my apprehensive nature won't help you I assure you.

I have no intention of trying to have you kicked off the forum. I would have already pursued that action if it was my intention. I DON'T appreciate you making reference to "people like me." Don't try to put me on a rib for ruining your efforts. This forum is not about college projects, it's about saving lives. I wish you luck in your project but you are being very presumptous assuming you will be sucessful by making me appear inconsiderate with a personal attack. My record here speaks for itself. God bless.

[mitchigan]

I will fill out your survey, hope it helps, and my IP is everywhere already, worst case it's just more work for the delete button...lol. Good luck with your research!

Greg

[MaisieC]

Originally Posted by JaisonT

Robert/Sue13 - My apologies to either of you that I have offended or made suspicious in any way. I am SURELY not a spammer or out to pull any computer data from you or anyone for that manner. I'm truly as stated before, a college student with an assignment. Yes Susan, I'm not googleable; but just for my protection as I'm sure your name is not Susan. I thought this site would truly respect that tenet.

Please Sue/Robert - For as much as I respect your opinions, people like you thwart any efforts I could have made. For instance, I could care less about an IP address but what really bothers me is that out of the 66 people that's viewed my post. Only about 34 have participated in my survey, I assume due to your WARNING about my perceived intentions. Your assistance has costed me half of a sample of people that I'm already trying to approach appropriately and respectfully. Posts like yours hinders research in spite of your intentions and I'm the one that loses.

Robert - Surveymonkey sounds weird but is probably the most professional and organized program I could find to hold my surveys. I apologize for its weird name but if you google it; its simply a survey site for those trying to attain participation that way. If I could give you my full name, school, class, assignment, height and weight safely; I would in effort go get an "A" in this class, but as you said the world is full of untrustworthy people. Unfortunately, I lose because I assure you I'm not one of them.

I of all people tried to share as much of myself as possible in effort to ask for your help. With that Robert, please don't have me kicked off the site or reported as I've already done physical interviews with those battling substance abuse, including my dad (which is TRUTHFUL about me) and I was told that my sample is too small. I'm really looking for help and this appeared to be the perfect site to get some participation.

Robert/Susan - I would love for either of you to participate and be a witness for others that my surveys are not only harmless, but simple, non-offensive and pretty basic.

Please. I'm truly asking for assistance here.

Thanks,
Jaison

Come on, this is annoying. I looked at your post before either Sue or Robert responded, and I thought "I don't know this guy from Adam." Anyone with a shred of experience with the Internet is likely to have the same response. You understand that well enough to be concerned about your own confidentiality, but you attribute other people's (very sensible) behavior as a bunch of blue meanies trying to thwart your work. "I'm the one that loses"? Aw, poor you.

I actually did click through to the survey and didn't see anything there that made me feel any more trusting. I've used SurveyMonkey to conduct surveys for my job, and there are ways to customize the interface to make it look more inviting. We don't know you at all, and the survey instrument is totally bare. For instance, you could have inserted a cover page in the tool and restated what you said here. I think that might have reassured people.

If you intend to do any more of this kind of research, please think about a few things. Making sure that you get what you want is never going to be the top priority for your respondents. It's your main priority, but don't assume it's anyone else's. I understand you want an "A+" in the class. But I have very different priorities being on this board. When you say that Sue and Robert "costed" you half of your responses, you assume you're entitled to those responses. You're not. In fact, your completion rate is pretty good for a survey like yours, promoted as it has been. Survey research is difficult. Study up on survey science before you start taking response rates as personal attacks.

Also, people don't like to be treated like specimens. No one likes to be treated like a specimen; people struggling with a problem that our society deems shameful tend to like it even less. If you go on to learn more about substance abuse, you'll learn about organizations like NA and AA, which hold "closed" meetings that are meant only for people struggling with substance abuse: they have parallel "open" meetings where family members, friends, etc. are also welcome. I think you can imagine that people like to have a safe and private environment where they can deal with these issues. To expect people to step up and spill information about themselves on an unknown site promoted by an unknown person just isn't sensible. And to whine when they don't is...well, I'm afraid you sound like some junkies I know.

[JaisonT]

Thanks everyone and I appreciate the time you took to participate in this education of me. This is the exact type of learning I aim for. I would like to sincerely apologize to anyone who I've offended and please excuse my faults and misrepresentations of you and myself. By the way, my name is Jason too; sans the "i". Nice to meet everyone and I hope you'll still welcome me into your forum. I look forward to learning from you all.

Thanks,
Jason

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[Sue13]

Interesting post, thanks. I had not thought about many of the things you brought up.

Mitchigan, I agree-I figure anyone can really find me if they want to. Jees, the bf found my trail and read all my posts (under a pseudonym). We who use the Internet have, unfortunately, become responsible for being our own watchdogs.

Jason, I haven't gone to any link yet; I have the feeling you are who you say you are, and there may be some help in making your survey more inviting. Maybe I am just thinking about it because I have to make my Flash website work better today. Hate that code!

Sue

[JaisonT]

Hello all,

I hope everyone had very restful nights. Just to be sure that I'm represented correctly. Icandoitin08, I have no clue what that advertisement is for. Like I alluded to in my apology my name is really spelled without the "i". Much like I said earlier, I would love to reveal whatever made everyone feel comfortable with me but in the interest of safety I won't. That's the only reason though. I truly am trying to become immersed and eventually welcomed within the group so I can learn and grow as an individual. I don't think and hope noone who was simply trying to scam others would invest this much time apologizing and trying to get others to accept them. If anyone in this forum have encountered someone like that, then I'm sorry. I can assure you that I'm not one of those people.

Maisie - On another note, I wish I could afford to be a lot more "fantastical" (I know thats not a word) with my surveys, but surveymonkey was the most affordable service that I could find to house my surveys on my budget. I'm sorry. I'd really love if you could participate if you can get past my unappealing survey however.

[icandoitin08]

Originally Posted by JaisonT

Hello all,

I hope everyone had very restful nights. Just to be sure that I'm represented correctly. Icandoitin08, I have no clue what that advertisement is for. Like I alluded to in my apology my name is really spelled without the "i". Much like I said earlier, I would love to reveal whatever made everyone feel comfortable with me but in the interest of safety I won't. That's the only reason though. I truly am trying to become immersed and eventually welcomed within the group so I can learn and grow as an individual. I don't think and hope noone who was simply trying to scam others would invest this much time apologizing and trying to get others to accept them. If anyone in this forum have encountered someone like that, then I'm sorry. I can assure you that I'm not one of those people.

Maisie - On another note, I wish I could afford to be a lot more "fantastical" (I know thats not a word) with my surveys, but surveymonkey was the most affordable service that I could find to house my surveys on my budget. I'm sorry. I'd really love if you could participate if you can get past my unappealing survey however.

Jason, if you really are hear for the group then you will be supported.