Contents List of tables page viii Preface IX l Markets versus morality 1 2 Binge drinking: the evolution of alcohol control policy in Finland 27 3 Our greatest social problem: anti-alcohol policy in Sweden 49 4 Nordic morality meets the European Union 73 5 Permissive pragmatism: drug control policy in the Netherlands 97 6 Harm reduction meets the EU: from public health to public order 121 7 Irish moral conservatism and European sexual permissiveness 143 8 The emergence of a European morality? 170 Bibliography 186 Index 206