Areas & Workpackages

  • Area 1 - Ownership of Addictions
    • a historical study of addiction over the ages, an analysis of stakeholder views and image analyses

  • Area 2 - Counting Addictions
    • how addictions are classified and defined, pulling together the enormous quantity of data on multiple addictions and their impacts on health and society.

  • Area 3 - Determinants of addiction
    • aims to better understand the initiation, transition into problem use and transition into and out of dependence.

  • Area 4 - Business of addiction
    • studies revenues, profits and participants in legal and illegal trade, the impact of suppliers and webs of influence on policy responses.

  • Area 5 - Governance of addiction
    • the ways in which societies steer themselves to deal with different lifestyles, present governance practices on established and emerging addictions, and future scenarios.

  • Area 6 - Addicting the Young
    • youth as customers, the impacts of new technologies on use, the interrelations of culture and biology, and features that promote resilience and reduce problematic use.

  • Area 7 - Coordination and Integration
    • the programme management takes a partnership perspective, built on the idea that health and social challenges cannot be successfully tackled by actors working alone.