Drugs and Alcohol Today: Volume 21 Issue 3

Guest editorial

Mélina Germes, Bernd Werse, Marie Jauffret-Roustide

Love & hate in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver: features of an unusual drug scene

Anke Stallwitz

According to conventional research and political conceptions, illicit drug scenes are often characterised by cultures of crime, violence and deceit and customarily met by…

Drug places and spaces of problematisation: the melancholy case of a Hungarian needle exchange programme

Endre Dányi, Róbert Csák

This paper aims to explore multiple problematisation processes through a former needle exchange programme run by Kék Pont (a non-governmental organisation) in the 8th district of…

Mapping “drug places” from below. The lived cities of marginalized drug users

Mélina Germes, Luise Klaus, Svea Steckhan

On top of their legal, economic, social and institutional marginalization, marginalized drug users (MDUs) also experience political marginalization: drug policies shape their…

Sociological and spatial dynamics of an evolving Parisian open drug scene: the case of the “Colline du Crack”

Candy Jangal, Mathieu Lovera, Sayon Dambélé, Marie Jauffret-Roustide

In November 2019, an open drug scene, commonly called “Colline du crack” and located in Paris was forcibly closed after 10 years of existence. This paper aims to understand how…

Tolerance zones: a pragmatic approach to respond to problems related to open alcohol and drug scenes in Bremen/Germany

Susanna Prepeliczay, Henning Schmidt-Semisch

This study aims to describe and analyse an approach in the city of Bremen (Germany) to establish streetwork-supported tolerance zones for local open drug and alcohol scenes to…

Producing gender-blind drug knowledge and representations in prison spaces

Niki Jana White

This paper aims to examine knowledge production and problem representation with regard to new psychoactive substances (NPS) in Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons (HMCIP…

Marginalised identities between fatalism and desperation – experiences of low-level cannabis street dealers in Frankfurt

Bernd Werse

This paper aims to research people who sell cannabis in public spaces known as “drug places” in Frankfurt, Germany. A particular focus is set to the relations of identity…