{"title":"Street Users in Drug Policy: On the Underestimated Role of Welfare Institutions","authors":"Nicolay B. Johansen","doi":"10.16993/bbo.i","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In Norway, the public and political debate is moving in the direction of treatment. This is in line with the tradition of the Nordic welfare state. However, it is argued, a treatment or welfare state approach to drugs can be as controlling as a policy based on legal punishments.","PeriodicalId":239499,"journal":{"name":"Retreat or Entrenchment? Drug Policies in the Nordic Countries at a Crossroads","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Retreat or Entrenchment? Drug Policies in the Nordic Countries at a Crossroads","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.16993/bbo.i","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In Norway, the public and political debate is moving in the direction of treatment. This is in line with the tradition of the Nordic welfare state. However, it is argued, a treatment or welfare state approach to drugs can be as controlling as a policy based on legal punishments.