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 …

Background In 2012 after more than 20 years of discussion Denmark introduced drug
consumption facilities as part of its drug policy. This article investigates the processes that …

The primary aim of this article is to contribute to ongoing debates regarding the role of
context in relation to the use of alcohol and other drugs (AOD). I argue that the concepts of …

Purpose Internet use has changed the mechanics of drug dealing. Although this has spurred
some initial academic interest in how markets and their users have been changing, the issue …

Background This paper considers the pleasures of psychedelic drugs and proposes a
Deleuzian understanding of drugged pleasures as affects. In spite of a large body of work on …

This article presents results from a study of clients' experiences of attending an opioid
substitution treatment clinic in Copenhagen, Denmark. The study is part of a research project …

Substitution treatment programmes were launched in Finland in 1997 in response to the
increase of HIV infections in the 1990s, related to increasing abuse of opioids and other …

Many Danish drug users do not only require services related to drug use, but face other
obstacles such as mental illnesses and unemployment. The services are constituted by …

The concept of “motivation” commonly constructs as a psychological essence what is really
the paradoxical imposition of a required desire. While the resulting impasse blocked …

Background Socially marginalised drug users when congregating in the public space on so-
called 'open drug scenes' are often problematised, especially in post-industrial cities which …