This issue includes the following themes

Successes and failures in drug treatment from a European perspective, follow-ups of treatment interventions in Norway and Sweden, and the wellbeing of patients,

Editorial

The new project of public health
Matilda Hellman

Research reports

Successes and failures in treatment of substance abuse: Treatment system perspectives and lessons from the European continent
Harald Klingemann

Recovery processes among young adults treated for alcohol and other drug problems: A five-year follow-up
Lisa Skogens and Ninive von Greiff

Levels of mental distress over 18 years after entering treatment for substance use disorders: A longitudinal cohort study
Arne Jan Hjemsæter, Jørgen G Bramness, Robert Drake, Ivar Skeie, Bent Monsbakken, Jūratė Šaltytė Benth and Anne S Landheim

The Norwegian remote intervention programme for problem gambling: Short- and long-term outcomes
Eilin K Erevik, Ståle Pallesen, Mette Mohn, Trond Aspeland, Øystein Vedaa, Torbjørn Torsheim

Changes in clients’ well-being (ORS) and state hope (SHS) during inpatient substance abuse treatment
Eeva Ekqvist and Katja Kuusisto

Elevated alcohol consumption among geriatric psychiatric in-patients
Anne-Sofie Helvik, Knut Engedal and Aud Johannessen

Reliability and construct validity of five life domains in the adolescent drug abuse diagnosis instrument in a sample of Swedish adolescent girls in special residential care
Marie-Louise Klingstedt, Margit Wångby-Lundh, Tina Olsson and Laura Ferrer-Wreder