Drugs and Alcohol Today: Volume 20 Issue 1

Editorial

Aysel Sultan, Aleksi Hupli

The relationship between the regulation of licit medications containing pseudoephedrine and the illicit methamphetamine market in Czechia and neighbouring countries

Benjamin Petruzelka

The purpose of this paper is to improve the understanding of the relationship between region-specific regulations of medications used in the manufacture of illegal drugs and…

Motivations for prescription drug use in a marginalised open drug scene

Aysel Sultan, Bernd Werse

The purpose of this paper is to explore prevalence, contexts and motives for the use of various benzodiazepines, sedatives and opioids among injection drug users in Frankfurt’s…

Tramadol as a pain relieving and physical work performance enhancement medication

Ann Ukachi Madukwe, Axel Klein

The purpose of this paper is to assess participants’ perception that tramadol enhances physical work performance and acts as a pain relief.

Social media markets for prescription drugs: platforms as virtual mortars for drug types and dealers

Jakob Demant, Silje Anderdal Bakken, Alexandra Hall

Internet use has changed the mechanics of drug dealing. Although this has spurred some initial academic interest in how markets and their users have been changing, the issue is…

Networked psychostimulants: a web-based ethnographic study

Caroline Robitaille

The purpose of this paper is to understand contemporary psychostimulant use among members of online discussion fora. Two objectives are addressed: to describe accounts of…

Cognitive enhancement with licit and illicit stimulants in the Netherlands and Finland: what is the evidence?

Aleksi Hupli

European studies have shown lower prevalence rates of prescription stimulant use for cognitive enhancement, especially among student populations, compared to North America. This…

User perspectives on cannabis and SSRIs as treatment for depression

Judy Castañeda

The purpose of this paper is to explore the qualitative relationship between cannabis and the most commonly used antidepressant drugs known as selective serotonin reuptake…