Lived fictions: moving from pharmacology to ethnography

Sociology-the poor relation in alcohol and drug research?

As a foundation theoretical discipline, sociology has much to offer the multi-disciplinary field of alcohol and drug studies. It has, nevertheless, been overshadowed by others such as medicine and, more recently, psychology. This paper maps significant policy issues in the alcohol and drug field over the past decade using Australian experience as an example. It identifies contributions of the social sciences and in doing so, poses a challenge for sociology.