Background The social meanings, settings and habitual nature of health‐related activities
and their integration into our daily lives are often overlooked in quantitative public health …

• Provides step-by-step instructions for students who will be writing their first research
proposal in the social and behavioral sciences.• Each major section is divided into short …

As harm reduction programs and services proliferate, people who use drugs (PWUD) are
increasingly subjected to surveillance through the collection of their personal information …

Background A range of studies has demonstrated the efficacy of the psychoactive
Amazonian brew ayahuasca in addressing substance addiction. These have revealed that …

The ontological turn has had a significant impact on the social sciences, including the social
sciences of alcohol and other drug use. Work questioning the materiality of drugs, and the …

This report, the second of three, discusses the nature of a recent turn in health geography
towards a posthuman theoretical orientation. This is an ontological turn that challenges …

Non-representational theory is an academic approach that animates the active world; its
taking-place. It shows how material, sensory and affective processes combine with …

Due to new production areas and persistent productivity gains, Brazil has consolidated its
position as a global leader and even as a 'model'of commercial, integrated crop production …

The deinstitutionalization of mental health institutions has enabled service users to live in
the community and search for what Duff coins 'enabling places.'These places were explored …

North America continues to witness escalating rates of opioid overdose deaths. Scale-up of
existing and innovative life-saving services–such as overdose prevention sites (OPS) as …