Within the field of drug and alcohol studies, researchers think about pleasure or against it;
we analyse, consider, investigate, invoke or ignore it. The philosophically inclined may think …

While critical drug researchers have long pushed for an acknowledgement of pleasure in
discourses of drug use, few have explored the alternative possibilities offered by Deleuze …

The number of people incarcerated in the US now exceeds 2.3 million, due in part to the
increasing criminalization of drug use: over 25% of people incarcerated in jails and prisons …

This article examines how the issue of alcohol use has been problematized using past and
current World Health Organization reports and associated publications as illustrations. The …

Background Sexualised drug use (SDU) has been identified as a major risk factor for HIV, as
well as other mental health comorbidities among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex …

This paper addresses some of the major implications of actor-network theory (ANT) for
research on the consumption of alcohol and other drugs (AOD). It focuses on the …

The marginality of pleasure in alcohol and other drug (AOD) policy, related health
interventions and public discourse is an ongoing concern for AOD researchers. While this …

Much research concerning drug use in the context of sexual activity among gay and bisexual
men derives from public health scholarship. In this paper, we critically examine how the …

Has the “dark side” of anabolic-androgenic steroids been overstated? In what follows, we
examine this question with the intention of injecting some nuance and much-needed debate …

Intensive sex partying is a framework developed to analyse specific frequent behaviours
amongst a small minority of gay men in Sydney, Australia. The behaviours included a higher …