Drugs, Habits and Social Policy: Volume 24 Issue 1

The “public health” approach to illicit drugs: an eradicative drug discourse in a sanitorial disguise?

Steven Debbaut, Tobias Kammersgaard

This study aims to problematize current calls for a “public health” approach to governing illicit drugs and the people who use them.

Correlates of heroin use, pharmaceutical fentanyl misuse, and dual heroin-fentanyl use: evidence from the USA

Brian C. Kelly, Mike Vuolo

The emergence of fentanyl has deepened concerns about the opioid crisis. The shift has created new distinctions in patterns of opioid use, which may be important for prevention…

The impact of the Celtic Tiger and Great Recession on drug consumption

James Windle, Graham Cambridge, James Leonard, Orla Lynch

This paper aims to explore how the Celtic Tiger economic boom and Great Recession influenced drug and alcohol use in one Irish city.

Policy traps and policy placebos: assessing drug policy network responses to drug related deaths

Iain McPhee, Barry Sheridan

This study focuses on emergency and strategic responses to drug-related deaths. This paper uses policy network theory and policy analysis frameworks to subject programme…

Practice implications of phenomenological research with substance-using parents whose children were subject to social care interventions

Kashmir Goddard, Jane Montague, James Elander

This study aims to reflect on ways that the experiences of vulnerable users of drug and alcohol services can inform social work practice and policy to improve treatment engagement…

Availability of different types of alcohol and amount of intake and next-day hangover – a naturalistic randomized controlled pilot trial

Ole Grummedal, Marie Strøm Zangenberg, Janne Schurmann Tolstrup

The authors tested the hypothesis that having a high availability of different types of alcoholic drinks (beer, wine or spirits) as compared to being confined to one type only…