{"title":"On the Possible Deconstruction of the Swedish Drug Policy","authors":"H. Tham","doi":"10.16993/bbo.f","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16993/bbo.f","url":null,"abstract":"Sweden has the strictest drug policy among the Nordic countries. The debate for a change has clearly increased in the last years and public authorities have come out in favour of evaluating the effects of criminalization of use. The government, however, sticks to “Sweden drug-free society” and increases penalization.","PeriodicalId":239499,"journal":{"name":"Retreat or Entrenchment? Drug Policies in the Nordic Countries at a Crossroads","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132629202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Street Users in Drug Policy: On the Underestimated Role of Welfare Institutions","authors":"Nicolay B. Johansen","doi":"10.16993/bbo.i","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16993/bbo.i","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":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116876724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Drug Use, Public Debate and Increasing Pressures for a Drug Policy Reform in Finland","authors":"P. Hakkarainen, Heini Kainulainen","doi":"10.16993/bbo.c","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16993/bbo.c","url":null,"abstract":"The situation in Finland is marked by a redistribution of labour between social and health care and criminal control policy. Attitudes are changing especially among the young, authorities are speaking out against the zero-tolerance policy, but there is also resistance to change. The situation is open.","PeriodicalId":239499,"journal":{"name":"Retreat or Entrenchment? Drug Policies in the Nordic Countries at a Crossroads","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122791596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Drug Controls in Iceland: Any Retreat in Sight?","authors":"Helgi Gunnlaugsson","doi":"10.16993/bbo.d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16993/bbo.d","url":null,"abstract":"Iceland has been marked by an opioid-crises, a problem of prescription of drugs and high numbers of drug-related deaths. The public has supported the strict policy of the country. However, there has recently been a number of initiatives from MPs and citizens to liberalize the drug policy.","PeriodicalId":239499,"journal":{"name":"Retreat or Entrenchment? Drug Policies in the Nordic Countries at a Crossroads","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115026638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Century of Dissonance and Harmony in Swedish Intoxication Policy","authors":"J. Edman","doi":"10.16993/bbo.j","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16993/bbo.j","url":null,"abstract":"The traditionally strict alcohol policies of the Nordic countries have all been liberalized. This leads to an increasing policy gap in relation to the drug policies. A prognosis is made about the future of drug policy in Sweden based on the development of alcohol policy – the market will ultimately decide.","PeriodicalId":239499,"journal":{"name":"Retreat or Entrenchment? Drug Policies in the Nordic Countries at a Crossroads","volume":"13 1-2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128487441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are the Nordic Countries at a Crossroads?","authors":"H. Tham","doi":"10.16993/bbo.l","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16993/bbo.l","url":null,"abstract":"Summarizing the results of the analyses about the possible retreat from the strict drug polices in the Nordic countries a clear answer cannot be given. Signs of changes seem however to be formed in public health terms, compatible with the idea of the welfare state.","PeriodicalId":239499,"journal":{"name":"Retreat or Entrenchment? Drug Policies in the Nordic Countries at a Crossroads","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115953543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gang Talk and Strategic Moralisations in Danish Drug Policy Discourses on Young and Recreational Drug Users","authors":"T. F. Søgaard, F. Nielsen","doi":"10.16993/bbo.g","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16993/bbo.g","url":null,"abstract":"In Denmark, a moralization of recreational use of drugs has lately occurred. The use is interpreted in a neo-liberal framing seeing the user who can chose as selfish, not regarding the negative consequences of drug use in a wider sense, and the legislation has been sharpened.","PeriodicalId":239499,"journal":{"name":"Retreat or Entrenchment? Drug Policies in the Nordic Countries at a Crossroads","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132829798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clashing Perspectives: Cannabis Users and Swedish Drug Policy","authors":"Josefin Månsson, Mats Ekendahl, Patrik Karlsson","doi":"10.16993/bbo.k","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16993/bbo.k","url":null,"abstract":"In a Swedish study treatment staff, youth cannabis users and adult cannabis users are interviewed about the risks of taking drugs. They all mobilize evidence-based arguments for their standpoints but arrive at quite different conclusions. Drug policy becomes “a matter of concern rather than a matter of facts”.","PeriodicalId":239499,"journal":{"name":"Retreat or Entrenchment? Drug Policies in the Nordic Countries at a Crossroads","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124227987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Medicine to Morals, and Back Again? The Changing Perceptions of ‘the Drug Problem’ in Norway since 1965","authors":"P. Larsson","doi":"10.16993/bbo.e","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16993/bbo.e","url":null,"abstract":"Norway has moved from a marked zero-tolerance policy to a debate on treatment instead of punishment. Youth using drugs are seen as problematic but the one with a problematic use should receive treatment. The political parties are however divided and a proposal for liberalization was voted down.","PeriodicalId":239499,"journal":{"name":"Retreat or Entrenchment? Drug Policies in the Nordic Countries at a Crossroads","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129500281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Drug Control as an Exception in a Humane and Rational Criminal Policy in Finland","authors":"Heini Kainulainen, P. Hakkarainen","doi":"10.16993/bbo.h","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16993/bbo.h","url":null,"abstract":"The drug policy in Finland is described as a paradox. Finland has after the Second World War actively worked for reducing the prison population to the general Nordic and West-European level. While these efforts were successful, the drug policy however developed in the opposite direction.","PeriodicalId":239499,"journal":{"name":"Retreat or Entrenchment? Drug Policies in the Nordic Countries at a Crossroads","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128382021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}