Kerstin Stenius looks back at developments in Nordic research and publishing

Abstract

Kerstin Stenius, editor-in-chief for many years of Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs (NAD), is retiring after decades of commitment to alcohol and drug research in both Sweden and Finland-and beyond. Her networks are indeed global: she has chaired the International Society of Addiction Journal Editors (ISAJE) and The Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol, and she is a founder and board member of the International Confederation of ATOD Research Associations (ICARA). While still in upper secondary school in Gothenburg, Sweden, Stenius was inspired by her Swedish teacher and considered studying literature and becoming a journalist. However, social work came to have a stronger draw. This was at the end of the 1960s, when the social climate was influenced by the war in Vietnam, Marxist movements, and taking a stand for the socially vulnerable. There was a strong conviction that it was possible to change and improve