Drugs Habits and Social Policy

International Women’s Day – highlighted content on health and care services In support of International Women's Day 2026 this virtual special issue presents some content highlights from key journals in Emerald Publishing’s Emerald’s Health & Social Care Collection.These artic...

In honor of #InternationalWomensDay, #DHSP articles are featured in a special #Emerald virtual issue:
1️⃣ “It is the way you treat yourself…” www.emerald.com/dhs/article-...
2️⃣ “Recent alcohol use and binge...” www.emerald.com/dhs/article-...
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Cannabis marketing in Canada and the USA, a scoping review by Samer Forzley and Eduardo Ordonez-Ponce

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#Cannabis #DrugPolicy #EmeraldPublishing #AcademicResearch #DHSP

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“Recent alcohol use and binge drinking behaviors among sexual minority undergraduate women and sorority members” by Keegan Buch, Ireland Shute, Megan Brown, Stuart Murray, Mark Prince and Eric Pedersen
#Alcoholuse #DrugPolicy #Emerald #DHSP

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“Social reintegration of methadone maintenance patients in Morocco: barriers and opportunities” by Lahcen Outaleb, Khalid Tinasti and Maria Sabir

#Druguse #PublicHealth #DrugPolicy #EmeraldPublishing #AcademicResearch #DHSP

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“Navigating uncertainty: psychological well-being and risky alcohol use in college students during COVID-19” by Morgan A. Douglass, Maeve O’Donnell, Olivia L. Bolts, Gemma T. Wallace and Mark A. Prince

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#AlcoholUse #Emerald #DHSP

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“Concurrent use of substance-use disorder treatment and mental healthcare in rural as compared to urban communities”
Neill Bates, Marissa Carraway, Dmitry Tumin, David Ryan

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#Druguse #PublicHealth #DrugPolicy #DHSP #AcademicResearch #Emerald

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“Preventing drug-related deaths in Scotland: perceptions and experiences of engagement in a “shared care” model of service delivery” by Betsy Thom, Anne Whittaker, Aileen O’Gorman et al.

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#PublicHealth #DrugPolicy #Emerald #Academia #DHSP

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“Samoan adult males’ thoughts and perspectives on factors that support responsible alcohol use and abstinence” by Aloaina Misa Arona Aloaina, Barbara Lynn Staniforth, and Vili Hapaki Nosa

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#AlcoholUse #DrugPolicy #Academia #DHSP #Emerald

Editorial: Where does digital health leave people who use drugs? Digital health is a term that has become increasingly important in public health, biomedicine and social studies of health and illness. WHO’s “Global Strategy on Digital Health” for 2020–2025 (WHO, 20...

NEW ISSUE is out now and includes the annual editorial from co-Editors-in-Chief @drayselsultan.bsky.social and Marta Rychert on #DigitalHealth and its implications for drug services & policy across three key dimensions: 1️⃣ access, 2️⃣ inclusion and 3️⃣ privacy. 👇
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“The epidemiology of alcohol consumption is associated with risky behaviors on the West Bank: a cross-sectional study” by Mohammad Abed, Mohammad Nairat, Ibrahim Assaf et al.

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#Alcohol #DrugPolicy #Academia #Research #DHSP #Emerald #Publishing

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“The impact of tobacco use on spending priorities in Jordan in 2017: the ‘crowding out’ effect” by Nadia Sweis and Bara Allan

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#DrugPolicy #TobaccoControl #PublicHealth #Research #EarlyCite #EmeraldPublishing #Academic #Publishing

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Drug and substance misuse: the emerging threat to the socio-moral fabric in Mbare suburb, Zimbabwe by Ishmael Mugari, Maxwell T. Kadungure, and Emeka E. Obioha

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#DrugPolicy #PublicHealth #Druguse #Research #Academia #EmeraldPublishing

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“Kentucky’s city and county bans on medical marijuana businesses: determinants of mixed policy environments” by David Yaskewich

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#MedicalMarijuana #CannabisPolicy #DrugPolicy #PublicHealth #Research #EarlyCite #EmeraldPublishing #academia

DHSP's Impact Factor has increased from last year (again)!

We want to take this opportunity to thank all the authors, reviewers, our invaluable editorial board members as well as the support of our publisher @emeraldpublishing.bsky.social for this steady upward trajectory!

Digital-physical hybridity in drug markets and harm reduction This special issue develops a more integrated approach to conceptualising relationships between the digital and physical in drug markets and harm reduction using concept of “digital-physical hybridity...

🚨 Call for papers 🚨
NEW SPECIAL ISSUE on "Digital-physical hybridity in drug markets and harm reduction" guest-edited by @monicabarratt.bsky.social @thomasfriissogaard.bsky.social & Robin van der Sanden.

Abstracts are due September 20!

🔗 www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-pa...

Call for Special Issue on Food Habits The Drugs, Habits and Social Policy journal is inviting expressions of interests to guest edit a Special Issue on Food Habits. The Special Issue will address the growing scholarship on habit-forming f...

DHSP is inviting expressions of interest to guest edit a Special Issue on 🌟Food Habits🌟! Researchers & practitioners working with food & nutrition, & interested in how food consumption is changing over time, are invited to take a closer look ⤵️ www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/dhs/...

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“I think they don’t realise being a parent is already difficult”: using Photovoice to understand the postpartum experience of women engaged with drug treatment during pregnancy’ by Emma Smith, ‪@pradcliffe.bsky.social & Anuoluwapo Fasanya

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In solidarity, our editorial is republished in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions, too.

The call outlines concrete strategies for action for 1) addiction journals, 2) research societies and 3) individual scientists! 👇

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‘It is the way you treat yourself, but also the way you allow other people to start treating you as well: perceptions of overdose risk among women who inject drug’ by @piatkowskitim.bsky.social et al.

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Call for applications - Managing Editor Call for applications for a managing editorDrugs, Habits and Social Policy (DHSP) journal is looking to appoint a new managing editor. DHSP is among the key publications in the field of drug policy an...

📣 DHSP is looking for a new Managing Editor!

Application: cover letter (500 words) & CV.

We look forward to welcoming you to our team 🐝

🔗 Details: www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/dhs/...

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‘Pharmacology 101: why the effects of coca are different to cocaine’ by Anthony Henman

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Inside #NewIssue 26(1): Book Review ‘Stigma and drug use: Research perspectives from Europe’ (edited by James Morgan and Marta Pinto) by Alfred Uhl

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Inside our #NewIssue 26(1): ‘Learning from HIV and drug policy failures: reflections from clinical practice and research in Edinburgh’ by Roy Robertson and Gerard McCartney

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Inside our #NewIssue 26(1): ‘Harm reduction design: doing health and safety differently’ by Nancy D. Campbell

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Inside our #NewIssue 26(1): ‘Liberalisation of alcohol policy in Lithuania and the role of public health coalitions: change in policy beliefs and strategy’ by Remigijus Civinskas and Jaroslav Dvorak

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🚨 #NewIssue DHSP Volume 26(1) 🚨

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

Together with 29 addiction and drug policy journal Editors, we are calling for action to resist anti-scientific attacks of the Trump administration: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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‘Does risky behaviour matter for self-reported health status? Evidence from Ghana’s adult population’ by Samuel Sekyi, Emmanuel Kofi Owusu, and Jacob Nunoo

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‘Learning from HIV and drug policy failures: reflections from clinical practice and research in Edinburgh’ by Roy Robertson and Gerard McCartney

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What does it mean to approach harm reduction design as a pedagogical endeavor? Check out our latest #EarlyCite, an original piece by Nancy Campbell

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