ADDICTION: Policy Case Studies Series
ADDICTION: Policy Case Studies Series
Established in 2008 and running until 2015, the Policy Case Studies series functioned as a component of the journal’s wider commitment to exploring how research has informed and produced change in addiction-related policy. Based on the principle that as many lives can be saved by encouraging governments and practitioners to adopt evidence-based policies as by discovering new treatments, the Policy Case Studies series focused on uncovered insights into the processes that underpinned important policy developments in the past, generally at the national level. The fourteen articles in the series explore such issues as the context of the development, events that might have triggered it, the individuals or groups that played a major role in enacting change, the major impediments to change, and the lessons to be learned for future policy change. The series was particularly effective in achieving broad global coverage, with case studies focusing on Australia, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, France, Ireland, Lithuania, The Netherlands, South Africa, Switzerland, and the United States.
In 2017, the Policy Case Studies series was restarted as ‘Case Studies in the Addiction Policy Process’ with a special focus on using theories of the policy process to understand policy change or stasis. Authors for the series are additionally encouraged to explore policy development and implementation at supra- and sub-national levels. (Addiction November 2017)