In this paper an analytical approach for the study of treatment and prevention programmes from a social science perspective is discussed The object of the approach is the relation between the social understanding of, eg , alcohol and drug problems and the forms and content of society's treatment efforts to meet these problems. What is suggested is a sociocultural analysis of how the different opinions in the discourse of alcohol and drug problems are expressed and reproduced in the treatment practices, and, by that, how they confirm and strengthen some opinions and practices and limit the space of other, alternative ones
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