Based on participant observation in a team of British policy-making civil servants carried out
in 2009, this article examines the use that is made of evidence in making policy. It shows that …

Drugs, Crime and Public Health provides an accessible but critical discussion of recent
policy on illicit drugs. Using a comparative approach-centred on the UK, but with insights …

Despite a range of criticism, the realm of policy still remains dominated by the rational,
positivist and quantitative approaches of New Public Management,'evidence …

Taking a multidisciplinary perspective (including public health, sociology, criminology, and
political science amongst others) and using examples from across the globe, this book …

Background It is well known that illicit use of methadone and buprenorphine is common
among people with an opioid dependence. Less notice has been taken of the fact that these …

For over 20 years, drug policy experts have been calling for the wider availability of
naloxone, to enable lay overdose witnesses to respond to opioid overdose events. However …

Aims: The way people who inject drugs (PWID) feel about drug policy may be profoundly
shaped by lived experience of stigma and the subjectivities made available in policy and …

Background Research on values is gaining in popularity within drug policy scholarship. To
date, research has focused on analysing values within policy, through documentary analysis …

Background It is increasingly accepted that a view of policy as a rational process of fitting
evidence-based means to rationally justified ends is inadequate for understanding the …

Calls for “evidence-based policy” and greater community “participation” are often heard in
the drug policy field. Both movements are in different ways concerned with the same …