Research Catalog

Title

The Swedish drug control system : an in-depth review and analysis / Tim Boekhout van Solinge.

Author

Boekhout van Solinge, Tim.

Publication

Amsterdam : Jan Mets : CEDRO, ©1997.

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Details

Description

219 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"The Swedish Drug Control System is the first thorough analysis of Swedish drug policy and critically examines the claims about drug use and drug policy in Sweden. This book places Swedish drug policy in historical context and shows that the 'Swedish model' can only be understood in terms of the social conditions under which this policy developed. It recounts the Swedish experience with intoxicants such as alcohol and amphetamine, and it discusses the scientific evidence on which the drug policy is based. It describes the Swedish drug policy in practice and offers new understanding of the rise in drug use Sweden is facing at the end of the 1990s."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Drug control > Sweden
• Social ecology
• Drug and Narcotic Control > legislation & jurisprudence
• Public Policy
• Social Environment
• human ecology
• Social ecology
• Drug control
• Drogenpolitik
• Drugsgebruik
• Drugsbeleid
• Sweden
• Schweden

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-212).

Contents

1. Relevance and Methodology -- Background and Relevance -- Methodology -- 2. Understanding Sweden -- Geography and the People -- History and Economy -- Social Democratic Tradition -- The Role of Popular Movements -- 3. The Swedish Drug Experience -- Traditional Use of Central Nervous System Stimulants -- The Experiment of Legal Prescription of Drugs: 1965-1967 -- The Definition of a Social Problem: 1968-1980 -- The Pursuit of a Drug-Free Society: the 1980s -- 4. Understanding Swedish Drug Policy -- Alcohol in Sweden -- Popular Movements and Lobby Groups -- Ideological and Scientific Foundations of the Restrictive Model -- The Function of a Restrictive Drug Policy -- 5. Swedish Drug Policy in Practice -- Drugs in Sweden -- The Practice of Police and Justice -- The Treatment System -- 6. Is the Swedish Drug Policy Effective? -- Prevalence of Drug Use -- New Patterns of Drug Use -- Police Activities -- The Treatment System -- Mortality and Morbidity -- The Debate on Swedish Drug Policy -- The Future of Swedish Drug Policy.

ISBN

• 9053302115
• 9789053302118

LCCN

98207210

OCLC

• ocm46663636
• 46663636
• SCSB-567507

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library