Major Project Unit- Raindance's 6 Rules of Screenplay Research- Consultants

The raindance website contains a lot of useful information geared towards filmmakers and screenwriters, and in the process of scouring the website for any kind of relevant and useful information, I came across this article which details 6 rules for successfully conducting research for a writing project;
http://www.raindance.org/6-rules-of-screenplay-research/

Although a lot of these rules and conventions described in the article aren't at all foreign to me, and they're processes I've applied to this project , there was one particular aspect of the article that I realize I haven't applied to this project, which I feel may have benefitted Ascension.
The 4th rule mentions how important it can be to speak to relevant people when conducting research, and while reading this article, I realized that I haven't really obtained any research material from speaking with an actual physical person on this project.
Although I have used a lot of online sources in order to learn certain things relating to this project that I have been unsure about, I haven't spent much time pursuing  knowledge from actual people that may have expertise in certain areas I have been investigating.
For example, I have been studying the effects and symptoms of cocaine addiction quite a bit in order to create a realistic and believable downward spiral for Alex Fairwether, and I have mostly been accomplishing this by checking out such websites as FRANK and NHS health sites.
One way I could have approached this research was by getting in contact with somebody over a health forum or drug forum that has been affected by cocaine addiction, either through their own substance abuse or by having a loved-one suffer through it.
Speaking to someone and receiving that raw human emotion and more description about the subject may have given me much more substantial research material which I could have used to further improve my work.

Contacts that writers are in touch with that are experts in various subjects are known as "consultants" and a lot of writers will often contact these consultants whenever they are writing about something they are unsure about. The consultant is usually an expert in a certain area and can therefore provide the relevant important information the writer would need in order to create a realistic and authentic piece of writing.
If I am to succeed as a writer, I feel that it may be important for me to begin contacting and creating consultants of my own, ready for when I enter the profession outside of UCA's walls.