The case of New Public Management in Swedish substance abuse treatment

The aim of the project has been to investigate the political discussions about, and the bureaucratic handling of, Swedish drug abuse treatment during the years 2001-2015.

The responsibility to offer support and treatment for people with gambling problems and their significant others was clarified in Swedish legislation in 2018. The aim of this study was to explore barriers for and experiences of help-seeking among people with gambling and alcohol problems.

The gendered dynamics of Swedish drinking situations from a comparative perspective.

Alcohol, drugs and tobacco constitute a major public health concern in Sweden. This project contributes with new knowledge about the extent to which the local preventive work regarding alcohol, drugs and tobacco in Sweden varies between municipalities and whether the work leads to reduced drugrelated problems.

Prevention for children 6-12 years with parents who misuse alcohol/illicit drugs: The effectiveness of the most commonly used program - Group interventions

An analysis of which individual and family-related characteristics are associated with problem gambling, and how problem gambling is related to young people’s self-reported health, life satisfaction, and future orientation.

Recovered, in treatment, or dead? A 20-year follow-up of women and men in Swedish substance use treatment.

This programme offers an overall coverage of topics of immediate interest in Swedish gambling research today, based on five different work packages.

Risks of injection drug use in a Swedish context: Prevention of harms in practice according to users, treatment staff, and societal actors

The future of social service work with substance use (FUSS): clients, trajectories, organisations and collaboration in a changing treatment system.

Highligths the importance of service user involvement for service users and staff, promoting and hindering factors for realizing user involvement in practice, and it provides enhanced possibilities for an effective and democratic addiction treatment system.

Understanding the mechanisms leading to young people drinking less than the generations before holds implications for approaches to reducing alcohol consumption at the population level in an ongoing way. The project is focuses attention on individual, developmental and social factors of all adolescents, including light drinkers and those who do not drink.

Youth, health and risk-taking: exploring how declining substance use and increasing mental health problems among young people are related to their everyday life concerns and practices

“Addiction” as a changing pattern of relations: Comparing autobiographical narratives about different dependencies.