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Zusammenfassung This book explores the outcomes of Sweden’s aim to create a ‘drug-free society’ on the lived realities, health, and welfare of people who use drugs, and on the dynamics of Swedish drug use. Drawing on a wealth of empirical data, including extensive interview testimony and participant observation from years of fieldwork conducted in Sweden. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Glossary! Acronyms! Abbreviations Introduction Sweden: a Bastion of 'Liberal' Democracy? Eugenics! Social Engineering! Sterilisations! Containment! and Control Methodology The Foci of my Research Moving into the People's Home Meeting Respondents Interviews! Consent! and Confidentiality Presentation of Research A Brief (but Important) Note on Language Overview of this Book Chapter 1. Historical! Legal! Discursive Precedent Moral Panic in the People's Home: Racism! HIV/AIDS! and Drugs The Commissions and Remiss Responses - Creating a Drug-Free Society Criminalising Use Compulsory Care International Models - War on Drugs vs Drug Law Reform Creating Consensus The Roles of RNS! FMN! and RFHL in Achieving Consensus Absence of Divergent Voices Exclusions of Drug Users Summary: Moral Panic! Consensus! and Silencing Chapter 2. Reimagining Drugs (and People who Use Them) Sending a Signal and Political Posturing Drug Use as Disease! Drug Users as Vectors Drug Users - Pathologisation and Infantilisation Are All Drugs Bad? Swedish Conflations Some Drugs Better Than Others - Swedish National Drugs Alcohol Snus Summary: Pathologisation and Demonisation of Drugs and People who Use Them Chapter 3. Dynamics and Displacement of Swedish Drug Use Which Drugs? Levels of Drug Use Levels of Alcohol Consumption Spaces: Public Drug Scenes Making Contact A Displacement of Drug Dealing and of People who Use Drugs Broader Projects of Displacement and Social Engineering Summary: Drug Difficulties! Displacement! Containment! and Control Chapter 4. Service Provision and Harm Reduction Harm Reduction The Need for Harm Reduction Harm Reduction Strategies Opposition to Harm Reduction Needle and Syringe Programmes Opposition to Needle and Syringe Programmes Injection Paraphernalia Availability Education Safer Drug Use Information on Blood-Borne Infections Opiate Substitution Therapy Opposition to Substitution Therapy Substitution Therapy Availability The Malmö Model - A Second 'Swedish Model'? Summary: Variability of Services and Harm Exacerbation Chapter 5. Experiences of Service and Healthcare Provision Spatial Segregation Social Services Opiate Substitution Therapy Gaining Access Disciplining and Conditionality High Threshold Substitution Therapy: Barriers to Seeking Assistance Compulsory Treatment Disseminating Dominant Discourse: Biopower! Geopower! Discipline Summary: Conditionality and Discipline Chapter 6. The Outcomes of Sweden's War on People who Use Drugs Impacts of the Criminalisation of Drug Use Stigma Arrests and Fines Disincentives to Seek Assistance: Losing Child Custody! Compulsory Care! Criminalisation Results of 'Harm Exacerbation' Policies High Threshold Methadone Illegal Needles! Needle Sharing! and Needle Reusing Blood Borne Infections Ineligibility for Hepatitis C Treatment People who Use Drugs and the Swedish Police and Security Forces Good Intentions? Difficulties in Reporting Crime Violence Summary: Exacerbated Harm! Danger! and Violence for People who Use Drugs Conclusions. Harm Exacerbation! Social Exclusion! and Violence Summary of Research: the Swedish Model of Drug Prohibition Silencing; Pathologisation; Displacement The Outcomes of Law and Policy: Service Provision! Harm Exacerbation! and Violence Sweden's 'Drug-Free Society': A Utopian Solution for all the World? In Summary: Sweden's War on People who Use Drugs Bibliography of Works Cited ? ...
