Author: Matilda Hellman

The CEACG is arranging the conference Lifestyle diseases: Responsibility and Ethics in Helsinki 11 -12 June 2018 together with the Nordic Committee on Bioethics, a committee underneath NordForsk. A programme draft can be found here: Lifestyle Disease – Responsibility and Ethics

Background and Scope: Non-communicable diseases (NCD), such as arteriosclerotic vascular disease, heart diseases and stroke, osteoporosis and Type II diabetes, are associated with certain behavioral choices and ways of living. According to Eurostat and the WHO, life expectancy in Europe is currently decreasing due to smoking, drinking and obesity. Continue reading “Lifestyle diseases: Responsibility and Ethics”

The official start day of the new A-BRAIN project is today, the 1st of March, 2018. The A-BRAIN project (2018-2021) concerns the implementation of the Brain Disease Model of Addiction (BDMA) and its possible implications for policy and practice. Seen in a wider perspective the project asks what it means when epistemic dogma starts situating the problems of addiction in the brain. How can this kind of knowledge be used and implemented in the most fruitful, sound and ethical ways? How can societies utilize the valuable parts of these discoveries and how does it change the ways in which we deal with addiction? Continue reading “NEW ERA-NET PROJECT STARTS TODAY”

Finland is renewing its alcohol act. The government has presented its proposal to the Parliament. It is now being considered and negotiated by the help of expertise hearings. One of these experts is Anu Katainen, university researcher and leader of the Online Marketing of Alcohol– project: “The proposal for the new alcohol act may put an end to the decreasing trend in under-age alcohol consumption which has been continuing for almost two decades now”, she says. Continue reading “The new alcohol act: more availability to minors?”

What are the rationales that have underpinned Finnish mental health policies and how has it affected what the core problems are perceived to be? This is discussed in a new doctoral dissertation by CEACG- researcher and group coordinator Anna Alanko. Alanko defends her dissertation on Friday the 22 September.

Continue reading “Mental health policy in the era of dehospitalisation”

The complete archive of Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs (NAD) 1984-2017 is now available at the journal’s web page. The first issue of the scientific journal Alkoholpolitik – Tidskrift för nordisk alkoholforskning (Alcohol Policy – Journal for Nordic Alcohol Research) appeared in 1984. Continue reading “Complete archive of NAD available”

Pekka Sulkunen has received the Finnish Cultural Foundation’s eminentia life achievement grant for a book project concerning some core questions in his academic production, namely the tensions between freedom of choice and the common good. Continue reading “Eminentia-grant celebrations!”

Picture: New CEACG-member Emmi Kauppila presenting her paper “What happens when alcohol marketing in social media is restricted?” at the Annual Sociology Days, 23.3.2017. Continue reading “Lifestyle Problems at the Annual Sociology Days”

The Finnish Foundation for Alcohol Studies (ATS) announced its funding decisions on the 28th of November and they entailed great news for the CEACG-group. Continue reading “New funding and appointments”

The University of Turku is hosting a workshop on the challenges of gambling (Publicum, Assistentinkatu 7) 1-2.12.
Interested participants can contact Susanne Uusitalo: susanne.uusitalo@utu.fi for more information. Continue reading “Workshop: Challenges of gambling”