NAT English Supplement 2004

The first years of the new Millennium will without doubt be noted as a turning point in the history of Nordic alcohol and drug policies. Like settlers we, researchers and policy makers, seem to find ourselves, having lost some of our most important tools, in a new world that looks only vaguely familiar.

Many of the articles in this issue of Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs reflect these changes in our environment and tool-quit.

Anders Bergmark analyses how the concept of risk has succeeded the moral arguments as the foundation for prevention activities and what may be the reasons for and implications of this. Toivo Hurme looks at the many and pragmatic uses of the only recently very controversial concept "harm reduction" in Finnish drug policy. Mats Ramstedts gives a clear summary of the methods and findings of the WHO report on alcohol's role in the global burden of disease. This is a report, with dramatic findings, that will be quoted and used in many situations and policy discussions around the world.

A set of country reports on the use – and abuse – of buprenorphine in the Nordic countries indicate a recent move away from the drug-free treatment and society, towards some kind of acceptance of chronic drug dependence. Another section of articles takes up different aspects of the growing role of private economic interest on the international alcohol policy arena.



Publicerad: 2004-08-17


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