David Moore is Honorary Professor in the School of Sociology at The Australian National University. He has published extensively in key sociological and health journals on youth, gender, alcohol and other drug use, addiction concepts and drug policy. David is the author of The Lads in Action: Social Process in an Urban Youth Subculture (Arena, 1994), and (with Suzanne Fraser and Helen Keane) Habits: Remaking Addiction (Palgrave, 2014). He also edited (with Paul Dietze) Drugs and Public Health: Australian Perspectives on Policy and Practice (Oxford University Press, 2008) and (with Suzanne Fraser) The Drug Effect: Health, Crime and Society (Cambridge University Press, 2011).With co-authors Helen Keane and Mats Ekendahl, David has recently completed The Trouble With Drinking: Alcohol, Health and the Regulation of Life (Bristol University Press, 2026). 

David has held positions at The Australian National University (Anthropology), Deakin University (Public Health), Curtin University (National Drug Research Institute) and La Trobe University (Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society). He is Consulting Editor for Contemporary Drug Problems, having been the journal’s Editor from 2010-2020.

Qualifications

• PhD, University of Western Australia
• MA, Anthropology, University of Western Australia
• BA(Hons), Anthropology, University of Western Australia

Research Interests

• Qualitative approaches, alcohol and other drug use, youth, gender, addiction concepts, alcohol and other drug policy