Pekka Hakkarainen
Official title: Research Professor, PhD
Tel. +358 29 524 7161
E-mail: [email protected]
Expertise
- Drug use and drug policy
- Substance use and addiction
- Polydrug use of alcohol, drugs and medicines
- Premature deaths of young people
Primary duties
Research
Education
- 2000, Adjunct Professor of Sociology, University of Turku
- 1998, Adjunct Professor of Economic Sociology, University of Turku
- 1993, Doctor of Social Sciences, University of Turku
Professional background
- Head of Alcohol, Drugs and Addictions Unit
- Director of Department, THL
- Director of Division, STAKES
- Group Head, STAKES
- Senior Researcher, STAKES
- Senior Assistant, University of Turku
- Associate Professor, Turku School of Economics and Business Administration
- Assistant, University of Turku
- Researcher, Finnish Foundation for Alcohol Studies
Current projects
- 2022–, Out of Despair – providing solutions to break the pathways leading to violent, suicidal and drug-induced deaths of young people (Young Despair), The Strategic Research Council, Finland
- 2010–, The Global Cannabis Cultivation Research Consortium (GCCRC)
- 1992–, Population surveys on drug use, THL
Previous projects
2014–2018, Making sense of polydrug use: Prevalence, use patterns and harms, Academy of Finland
Professional memberships
Member of the Drug Policy Coordination Group
Publications and research
Dissertation
Hakkarainen P: Suomalainen huumekysymys. Huumausaineiden yhteiskunnallinen paikka Suomessa toisen maailmansodan jälkeen [Finnish drug issue. The social status of drugs in the post-Second World War Finland]. Helsinki: Finnish Foundation for Alcohol Studies, Publications No. 42, 1992
