Projects

By setting up and coordinating empirical research on a high methodological and theoretical level, the ISD is aiming to get a better understanding of the complexity of the use of pleasurable substances and drugs. The insider's view gets all the attention that it deserves and needs in order to get a reliable set of results and conclusions. The multi-disciplinary composition of the ISD and the cooperation of the Institute with different foreign departments and faculties result in activities that are set up from different disciplines: criminology, psychology, anthropology, social geography, philosophy, criminal law, history, ...

Symbiosis of criminology, social and cultural anthropology (ethnography) and epidemiology leads to exploratory research. The main point of the ISD research is the investigation of the use of drugs, the social epidemiological dimensions of the use of drugs, the traffic of drugs, the developments, evolutions and trends in the use of specific substances and the reactions within the society upon the use of drugs. At a later stage the expertise, the theories, the research methods and research techniques are presented to interested persons by the organisation of ISD-lectures, guest lectures and workshops but the results are also presented to local, national and international organisations in the field of drug research in order to give them scientific background, advice and help.