Drugs and Alcohol Today: Volume 13 Issue 1

The ideological drug problem

Johan Edman

This article seeks to investigate the ideological visions embedded in the political formulation of the Swedish drug problem and in the bureaucratic management of the Swedish drug…

The moral entrepreneurship of anti‐khat campaigners in Sweden – a critical discourse analysis

Johan Nordgren

This article aims to analyse the discourse about khat in the Swedish newspaper media and to present the concept of moral entrepreneurship as a useful analytical tool for…

Knowledge production, communication and utilization: studying biomedical alcohol research

Alexandra Bogren, Katarina Winter

A growing body of social research analyzes how the biomedical interest in detailed molecular aspects of people's bodies (genes, biomarkers, DNA) affect everyday notions of health…

Brief alcohol interventions in Norwegian natal care: a neoliberal mode of governing and social consequences

Mette Irmgard Snertingdal

In this paper the aim is to explore what modes of governance, brief alcohol interventions in natal care, such as screening and motivational interviewing (MI) represent, and what…

Cannabis use during a life course – integrating cannabis use into everyday life

Vibeke Asmussen Frank, Anne‐Sofie Christensen, Helle Vibeke Dahl

Overall within cannabis research, only a few studies have specifically targeted the use of cannabis among the adult population, and consequently very little is known about the…

Collectivist and individualist values traits in Finnish and Italian adolescents' alcohol norms

Matilda Hellman, Sara Rolando

The study aims to investigate a possible application of the concepts of individualist and collectivist (I‐C) value traits in inquiries on alcohol drinking norms in different…

Drugs – trends, policy and practices in the Nordic countries

Axel Klein, Vibeke Asmussen Frank, Bjarke Nielsen

Round up

Christine Goodair

In this issue

Bjarke Nielsen, Axel Klein, Vibeke Frank

2012 Awards for Excellence