Edited by Matilda Hellman, Adjunct Professor and Research Coordinator, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland, Virginia Berridge, Professor of History and Director, Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, Karen Duke, Associate Professor in Criminology, Department of Criminology and Sociology, Middlesex University, London, UK, and Alex Mold, Senior Lecturer in History, Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK

Matilda Hellman, PhD, adjunct professor in sociology, is an internationally recognized scholar specializing in concepts of and societal reactions to addictive behaviours. She has successfully managed and coordinated international studies since 2005, and has developed comparative designs for the study of cultural aspects of lifestyle and health. She is director of the Center for Research on Addiction, Control and Governance (CEACG) at the University of Helsinki and in 2015-2016 she holds a university lectureship at the University of Tampere. Hellman has published extensively, edited anthologies and worked as editor for several scientific journals. She works as a consultant for the Finnish National Institute for Welfare and Health.

Virginia Berridge is Professor of History and Director of the Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London. She has published widely on the history of illicit drugs, smoking, and alcohol and has worked in both historical and non-historical settings. She is senior editor for History for Addiction and President of the Alcohol and Drug History Society. She has managed programmes of research funded by the Wellcome Trust, the Economic and Social Research Council and other funding bodies. Virginia is also the author of Demons: Our changing attitudes to alcohol, tobacco, and drugs (OUP, 2013).

Karen Duke is Associate Professor at Middlesex University, UK. She is a criminologist and policy analyst specialising in research on the development of drugs and alcohol policy and the interfaces with the criminal justice system. She has conducted drugs related research and consultancy for the Home Office, Department of Health, the former Central Drugs Co-ordination Unit (Cabinet Office), and the Royal Society for the Arts. She is one of the Editors in Chief of the journal, Drugs: education, prevention, and policy.

Alex Mold is a historian with research interests in post-war British public health. She has worked on the history of heroin addiction treatment, the role of voluntary organisations around illegal drugs and the development of patient consumerism. Alex currently holds a Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities New Investigator Award, which is concerned with the place of the public in public health in Britain since 1948.

Vibeke Asmussen Frank, Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences - Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research, Aarhus University, Denmark
Franca Beccaria, Eclectica, Institute for training and research, Cuneo, Italy
Virginia Berridge, Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Bagga Bjerge, Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences - Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research, Aarhus University, Denmark
Jan Blomqvist, Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs, SoRAD, Stockholm University, Sweden
Michal Bujalski, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland
Karen Duke, Department of Criminology and Sociology, Middlesex University, London, UK
Johan Edman, Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs, SoRAD, Stockholm University, Sweden
Michael Egerer, Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, Finland
Irmgard Eisenbach-Stangl, European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Vienna, Austria
Pekka Hakkarainen, National Institute for Welfare and Health, Helsinki, Finland
Matilda Hellman, Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, Finland
Grazyna Herczynska, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland
Rachel Herring, Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, School of Health and Education, Middlesex University, London, UK
Esben Houborg, Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences - Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research, Aarhus University, Denmark
Raitasalo Kirsimarja, National Institute for Welfare and Health, Helsinki, Finland
Justyna Klingemann, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland
Anja Koski-Jännes, University of Tampere, Finland
Hans Olav Melberg, Department of Health Management and Health Economics, University of Oslo, Norway
Alex Mold, Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Jacek Moskalewicz, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland
Riikka Perälä, Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, Finland
Enrico Petrilli, Eclectica, Institute for training and research, Cuneo, Italy
Sara Rolando, Eclectica, Institute for training and research, Cuneo, Italy
Gunnar Sæbø, State Institute for Drug Abuse (SIRUS), Olso, Norway
Dirk Schreckenberg, Zeus GmbH, Center for Applied Psychology, Environmental and Social Research, Hagen, Germany
Suzanne Taylor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Betsy Thom, Department of Mental Health, Social Work and Interprofessional Learning, Middlesex University, London, UK
Marta Welbell, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland