Priorities in Swedish Alcohol and Drug Treatment

The aim of the article is to report how treatment staff think priorities for access to alcohol and drug treatment are and should be set and to describe the extent to which different client groups are seen as receiving the treatment they need. Questionnaires were sent to staff in the social and health care systems in Stockholm County. The empirical data is contrasted against official priorities and different ways of ethical reasoning. Official priorities are mainly based on an egalitarian way of reasoning. Data collected from staff indicates that “misusers with children,” “new misusers” and “youth” are seen as groups that should be prioritized, whereas few think that “persons who have been misusing for a long time” and “heavy misusers” should be prioritized. Staff also favored prioritizing a larger number of groups than are seen as receiving emphasis now. The reasoning of staff seems to be based on clients’ past actions, and to a lesser extent on utilitarian and egalitarian concerns

Political science · Public relations · Set (abstract data type) · Health Policy Implementation Science · Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life · Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology

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