Swedish Drug Policy in the Twenty-First Century
A Policy Model Going Astray
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9747968 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leif Lenke (corresponding author), Boerje Olsson |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 582 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 64-79 |
| Publication date | 2002-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716202582001005 |
| OpenAlex | W4233475867 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
| References cited | 9 |
During the 1990s, the drug problem in Sweden stabilized in spite of a heroin wave on the European continent and in the United Kingdom. The preconditions for this control policy are discussed, as are the advantages of the Swedish drug control model with its massiveness regarding prevention, treatment, and repression. When drawing conclusions from the 1980s, focus has been placed on zero tolerance and dissociation of harm reduction activities in connection with the economic crisis that, although temporary, hit Swedish society in the 1990s. This resulted in the control policy's having a list so that preventive measures and treatment had to give in on behalf of further strengthening of the police in the drug control model. The change in focus toward an even more pronounced zero tolerance approach did not yield any visible results regarding drug use. Experimenting with drugs and heavy drug use increased considerably during the 1990s
Business · Control (management · Drug · Drug control · Economic policy · Economics · Fell · Geography · Harm · Harm reduction · Management · Political economy · Political science · Psychiatry · Public health · Zero tolerance · Advanced Causal Inference Techniques · Complex Systems and Decision Making · Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research · Health Policy Implementation Science · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Pharmacology · Public Administration · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
An all-embracing problem description. The Swedish drug issue as a political catalyst 1982–2000
Scandinavian Exceptionalism in an Era of Penal Excess
Rifts in the Hegemony
Characteristics of and Experience Among People Who Use Take-Home Naloxone in Skåne County, Sweden
Stakeholders’ opportunities and attempts to influence drug policy in Sweden
Media constructions of an illegal drug
What can we know about legal minors who inject drugs? Exploring register data in three high-income countries
The nitrous oxide problem in Swedish prohibitionist drug policy
Struck by the Potentials of Cannabusiness
An ambiguous monolith – The Swedish drug issue as a political battleground 1965–1981
Politics, Profession and Law
Drug prevention, politics and knowledge
Legitimacy through scaremongering
Social capital in relation to alcohol consumption, smoking, and illicit drug use among adolescents
Sex, drugs and techno – a qualitative study on finding the balance between risk, safety and pleasure among men who have sex with men engaging in recreational and sexualised drug use
It should be hard to be a drug abuser” An evaluation of the criminalization of drug use in Sweden
Unveiling Psychedelics
Does It Cost More to Be a Female Offender? A Life-Course Study of Childhood Circumstances, Crime, Drug Abuse, and Living Conditions
Organisational exceptions as vehicles for change
PREFACE The Varieties of Drug Control at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century
Protecting Prohibition
Alcohol Prevention in the Swedish Workplace—Who Cares
Biased Enforcement Expansion? Sociodemographic Differences in Police Drug Testing for Suspected Narcotics Use 1993–2015
The Life Course of Young Male and Female Offenders
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,21 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2026 (25) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |