Conference theme: 'Making alcohol and other drug realities'

Abstract submission deadline: 1/3/2017

Building on CDP's three previous conferences, which have opened up questions of how drugs are problematised; how the complexity of drug use might be attended to and managed; and how drug use might be understood as event, assemblage or phenomenon, we now seek submissions for presentations that critically explore and debate the issues posed when we approach science, policy, treatment, law and other practices as constituting the realities they seek to address.

Possible topics include consideration of the realities constituted in or by:

• Prohibition and international drug conventions
  Mandated treatment
  Drug courts
  Alcohol and other drug policy
  Education/health promotion in schools and universities
  Harm reduction services and measures
  Neuroscientific approaches to drug effects and addiction
  Monitoring/surveillance systems
  Research on drug trends
  Quantitative measures of alcohol and other drug use
  Qualitative concepts of subjectivity, agency, affect, identity
  Post-qualitative research methods
  Consumer accounts and narratives of drug use, addiction and recovery
  Medical and other forms of diagnosis/assessment
  Treatment models and practices
  Youth and other drug services
  Social media websites and apps
  Popular culture enactments of drug use
  Other relevant topics welcome.