This article explores morality and credibility struggles in connection to two officially sanctioned public Swedish experiments launched in the late 1960s to investigate the (ab)use of alcohol and illicit drugs, especially in relation to young people, and the subsequent decisions to terminate the experiments and research. We argue that these 1960s struggles on how to analyze the effects of increased availability of psychoactive substances must be understood in the light of a simultaneous development of modern (social) science studies. The public display of conflicting expert views on how to investigate and interpret questions of alcohol and drugs in modern society played out in concordance with the growth of social science alcohol and drug research and expertise. The article focuses on the 1960s, a decade that was characterized by profound transformations in Swedish society. In so doing, the article contributes from the perspective of history to debates on the nexus between knowledge production and policy in modern societies.

本文探讨了与 1960 年代后期发起的两项官方批准的瑞典公开实验有关的道德和信誉斗争，以调查（ab）使用酒精和非法药物，特别是与年轻人有关的情况，以及随后终止实验和研究。我们认为，必须根据现代（社会）科学研究的同步发展来理解这些 1960 年代关于如何分析增加的精神活性物质可用性的影响的斗争。随着社会科学酒精和药物研究和专业知识的发展，公众就如何调查和解释现代社会的酒精和药物问​​题发表了相互矛盾的专家观点。这篇文章的重点是 1960 年代，瑞典社会发生深刻变革的十年。通过这样做，本文从历史的角度对现代社会中知识生产与政策之间的关系进行了辩论。