NAD

The journal covers a broad set of aspects on epidemiology, use, harm, prevention, policies, and practice. The articles are encouraged to involve a social or welfare political framing. Nordic research and comparative settings are of special interest, but the journal also welcomes contributions from other parts of the world with relevance from a Nordic perspective. The journal publishes articles in English, but also in Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish.

Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs has an international readership of researchers, public health authorities, politicians, decision-makers, NGOs, professionals, students, and the media. By publishing in the journal, the contributors also reach a wider Nordic audience through the popNAD website and its summaries of the journal’s content.

NAD is published in cooperation with Uppsala University and the University of Helsinki. Financial contributors to NAD are the Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research (CRF) at Aarhus university in Denmark, the Ministry of Social Affairs in Sweden, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health in Finland, the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland (SLS), and the Icelandic Directorate of Health.

Editorial board

• Maj Nygaard-Christensen, Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research, Denmark
• Kristine Rømer Thomsen, Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research, Denmark
• Elin Kristin Bye, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway
• Johan Svensson, CAN/Stockholm University, Sweden
• Ársæll Már Arnarsson, University of Iceland, Iceland
• Filip Roumeliotis, Stockholm University, Sweden
• Anne Schanche Selbekk, West Norway Competence Centre (KoRus Stavanger), Norway
• Jani Selin, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland
• Katja Kuusisto, Tampere University, Finland

Associate Editors

• Stefan Bastholm Andrade, VIVE – The Danish Centre of Applied Social Science, Denmark
• Jenni Savonen, University of Helsinki, Finland
• Katarina Winter, Stockholm University, Sweden
• Linn Gjersing, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway

NAD 1/2025

Editorial
New divides and alienation
Matilda Hellman

For Debate
Tålt brutalitet? – Om hva vi vet og ikke vet om mennesker med narkotikarelaterte problemer
Nicolay Borchgrevink Johansen

Research Reports
Understanding substance use patterns among adolescent girls in Norway through the lens of mattering
Hanna Paulina Svanesjøen Dyrendahl, Ingunn Tollisen Ellingsen, Riina Kiik

Coordination in treatments for people who use anabolic androgenic steroid (AAS) – experiences of professionals
Linda Pettersen Myhre, Mona Jerndahl Fineide

Rehabilitative measures as a legal response for adolescents convicted for drug offences – the Swedish system
Johan Glad, Marie Berlin, Olof Bäckman, Torbjörn Forkby, Gunnel Hedman Wallin

Connection, hope and reciprocal valuation – a qualitative study about experiences of participating in the peer-led course ‘Recovery is up to you’
Aasa Kvia, Anne Schanche Selbekk, Hildegunn Sagvaag

Corrigendum
Corrigendum to “Professional competencies in social work concerned with alcohol use problems in Lithuania: Moving beyond ‘know-how”