The Swedish Drug Problem: Conceptual understanding and Problem Handling, 1839-2011:

Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs

JohanEdman¹ 

关键词: Sweden;    history;    20th century;    19th century;    drug problem;    concepts;   

DOI  :  10.2478/nsad-2014-0044

学科分类：生物化学/生物物理

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

AimTo analyse the Swedish drug question by examining dominant concepts used to portray the problem in the years 1839-2011. Theoretically, we understand these concepts as ideological tools that shape the political initiatives and administrative efforts to deal with the problem. The study is based on two kinds of source material: articles in medical journals from the years 1839-1964 and public reports on vagrancy, the alcohol problem, mental health and the drug problem from the years 1882-2011.FindingsDuring the nineteenth century and the first part of the twentieth century the drug problem remained an individual problem handled by doctors. When the Swedish drug problem was established as a political question from the 1960s on, it also came to disengage itself from the medical frame of understanding. Medically oriented descriptions of “dependence” and “addiction” have appeared adequate or attractive when, for example, the socially motivated coercive treatment solution has been discredited (as in the 1970s),...

【 授权许可】

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