Drug use disorders among people convicted of drug supply crimes with Julie Brummer

In this episode, Dr Elle Wadsworth talks to Dr Julie Brummer, an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research at Aarhus University in Denmark. The interview covers Julie’s article on drug use disorders among people convicted of large-, moderate- and small-scale drug supply crimes in Denmark.

• A background on the relationship between drug use and drug supply [00:55]
• The motivation to examine drug use disorders among people convicted of drug supply crimes [02:45]
• The methods used in the study [05:15]
• The key findings on the prevalence of drug use disorders [08:31]
• The key findings on the group characteristics of drug use history among those convicted of a serious drug crime [10:01]
• The implications of the findings on drug treatment [11:21]
• The interpretation of ‘fringe’ players [12:06]
• Drug treatment in prisons [13:22]
• The take home messages [14:09]
• The next steps for Julie’s group with this dataset [14:45]
• The replicability of this study in other jurisdictions [16:10]

About Elle Wadsworth: Elle is an academic fellow with the Society for the Study of Addiction. She is based at the University of Bath with the Addiction and Mental Health Group and her research interests include drug policy, cannabis legalisation, and public health. Elle holds a voluntary role at The Loop, a non-profit service provider of drug checking in the UK.

About Julie Elizabeth Brummer: Julie is an assistant professor at the Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research, Aarhus University, Denmark. She is an editor of Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy and an associate editor of Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. She was a consultant for the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe’s Alcohol and Illicit Drugs and Health in Prisons Programmes from 2011 to 2018. Her current research focuses on trajectories into serious drug crime, alcohol’s harms to others, adolescent heavy drinking, young people in treatment for opioid use disorders, and register-based methods.

Declarations of interest: None

Original article: Drug use disorders among people convicted of large-, moderate- and small-scale drug supply crimes: A register-based retrospective comparative study https://doi.org/10.1111/add.70612

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