European Masters in Drug and Alcohol Studies Nadine Gerarda Maria van Gelder ASSIGNMENTS FOR MODULE II: Drug use and addiction theories Assignment – Review of a scientific article Article Coomber, R., Moyle, L., & South, N. (2015). ‘The normalisation of drug supply: The social supply of drugs as the ”other side” of the history of normalisation’. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy , 23(3), 255-263. Review Summary of aims, methods and results. The study by Coomber, Moyle and South (2015) describes the relationship between the, according to the authors, relative normalisation of ‘non-commercial social supply’ of recreational drugs and of the use of these drugs in the United Kingdom. The article’s aim is to make the argument that this relative normalisation of recreational drug use is intertwined with the relative normalisation of the social supply of these drugs within social networks, and that this normalisation of social supply is a consequence of the normalisation of use. A qualitative, exploratory approach was used for researching and explaining the relationship between the two phenomena of recreational drug use and recreational drug supply. Data gathered from semi-structured interviews were analysed thematically. The exact topics questioned in the interviews are not described in the article. The study setting focused on (small) social networks in which recreational drugs were socially supplied among friends and/or acquaintances. The studied population concerned ‘social suppliers’ of recreational drugs, comprising of a student sample (n=30) plus a (local) general population sample (n=30). These respondents were recruited via local advertising through social media, and subsequently through selecting friends or acquaintances of