This overview reviews the establishment and evolution of the Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs (SoRAD). It outlines its current organisation and updated research direction, and discusses SoRAD’s future challenges and opportunities. SoRAD was established at Stockholm University to strengthen and support Swedish social science research on alcohol and drugs. It became active in 1999, and quickly grew in research efforts and reputation, while experiencing setbacks around 2006 and 2017. In 2018 SoRAD merged with the Centre for Health Equity Studies (CHESS), to form a new Department of Public Health Sciences. In its new suit, SoRAD acts as a research centre within the teaching department. The research activities on alcohol and other drugs and gambling behaviour and problems may be categorised into four main areas: social epidemiology; subcultures and social worlds of use and heavy use; policy formation, implementation and societal responses; and societal and other collective definitions of problems and solutions. The new arrangements, with an increased staff pool and close interplay with higher education, provide a more stable and long-term platform for achieving the main mission of promoting and developing social science research on addictive substances and behaviours and related problems.

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酒精和毒品社会研究中心 (SoRAD) 的新套装：为应对未来的研究和挑战量身定制的服装

本概述回顾了酒精和药物社会研究中心 (SoRAD) 的建立和演变。它概述了其当前的组织结构和最新的研究方向，并讨论了 SoRAD 未来的挑战和机遇。SoRAD 成立于斯德哥尔摩大学，旨在加强和支持瑞典关于酒精和毒品的社会科学研究。它于 1999 年开始活跃，并在研究工作和声誉方面迅速增长，但在 2006 年和 2017 年左右经历了挫折。2018 年，SoRAD 与健康公平研究中心 (CHESS) 合并，成立了一个新的公共卫生科学系。在其新套装中，SoRAD 充当教学部门的研究中心。对酒精和其他药物以及赌博行为和问题的研究活动可分为四个主要领域：社会流行病学；亚文化和使用和大量使用的社会世界；政策制定、实施和社会反应；以及对问题和解决方案的社会和其他集体定义。新的安排，增加了人员队伍，与高等教育密切互动，为实现促进和发展成瘾物质和行为及相关问题的社会科学研究的主要任务提供了一个更加稳定和长期的平台。