Cover -- Impact of Market Forces on Addictive Substances and Behaviours -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1 The global political economy of the addictive industries -- 2 The multiple voices of the corporation -- 3 The architecture of the addiction lobby -- 4 Astroturf, front groups, sock puppets, and the capture of civil society -- 5 The addiction thought collective: How think tanks foster addiction -- 6 Interlocking corporate networks in civil society -- 7 Corporate capture of science? -- 8 Addiction aware? Corporate social responsibility
9 Advertising addictions10 Lobbying and policy capture -- 11 Conclusions: Prospects for untangling the addictions web of influence
Summary
First-hand account of the current state of addiction governance in Europe, utilising a unique dataset of corporate memberships and networks across the EU to document the overall architecture of corporate political activity and the role addictive substance and behaviour-producing industries play in influencing addiction policy in Europe