Drugs, addiction and society

Abstract

The articles in this issue of BioSocieties occupy an analytic space between the extreme poles of social construction and biological reductionism, acknowledging that each approach has had and continues to make important contributions towards understanding addiction. Individually, the contributions illustrate that productive, interdisciplinary analyses of issues relating to addiction can take a number of different forms. As a whole, the collection addresses the problems and meanings of addiction, particularly in relation to recent developments in addiction science.