Medicalisation of the Social Perspective: Changing Conceptualisations of Drug Problems in Finnish Social Care and Substance abuse Treatment:

Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs

PiaRosenqvist¹ 

关键词: drug problems;    Finl;    concepts;    history;    treatment;    medicalisation;    social work;   

DOI  :  10.2478/nsad-2014-0046

学科分类：生物化学/生物物理

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

AimsStarting from the notion of the Finnish “non-medical approach” in the handling of alcohol and drug problems, this article analyses expressions of the medicalisation of drug problems and drug users in Finnish social work and specialised substance abuse treatment. The article focuses on the first drug wave, in the 1960s, and the second, at the end of the 1990s.DesignThe data consists of all texts on illegal drugs found in the years 1968-1972 and 1997-2001 in two leading journals of social work, one from the social care and social service field, the other issued by the key provider of specialist substance abuse treatment. The texts were systematically analysed (author(s), problem descriptions, suggested solutions, and words used for the problem and the drug user).ResultsIn both periods, we found in the journals a social perspective on drugs and drug problems. There is more emphasis on prevention and more optimism on the possibilities of prevention in the first than in the second period. During the first ...

【 授权许可】

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