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 2/2025

Editorial
Science, DEI and expanded thinking
Matilda Hellman

A clarion call to the addiction science community: It’s time to resist the anti-scientific policies of the US Trump administration
Thomas F. Babor et al.

Wishing for a more sober society: A scoping review on addiction problems and treatment in Greenland preceding the 2016 national treatment strategy
Julie Flyger Holflod, Christina Viskum Lytken Larsen, Birgit Niclasen, Anette Søgaard Nielsen

A place of encounter: Health and social care workers’ perspectives on public gathering spaces for people using drugs
Stig Bjønness, Amalie Jøntvedt Lie, Trond Grønnestad

Professional competencies in social work concerned with alcohol use problems in Lithuania: Moving beyond ‘know-how’
Justina Kievišienė

Trends in attitudes towards gambling among Finnish women and men: Cross-sectional population studies 2011, 2015, 2019 and 2023
Tanja Grönroos, Heli Hagfors, Jukka Kontto, Tiina A. Latvala, Anne H. Salonen

Demographics and help-seeking among significant others contacting the Swedish gambling helpline
David Forsström, Olof Molander, Anders Nilsson, Håkan Wall

Editor’s Note
The war on good research: Debating research ethics and methods on the basis of Jay Levy’s The war on people who use drugs: The harms of Sweden’s aim for a drug-free society (Routledge, 2017)