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The War on People who Use Drugs - The Harms of Sweden's Aim for a Drug-Free Society (Hardcover)
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The War on People who Use Drugs - The Harms of Sweden's Aim for a Drug-Free Society (Hardcover)
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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, the book debunks the widely-believed
myth that Sweden is a progressive, liberal, inclusive state. In
contrast to its liberal reputation, Sweden has criminalised the use
of drugs and allows for compulsory treatment for those with drug
dependencies. The work argues that Swedish law and policy cannot be
demonstrated to have decreased drug use as intended, with the law
used instead as a means with which to displace people who use drugs
from public spaces in Sweden's cities. And where the law has failed
in its ambition to decrease drug use, Swedish law and policy have
increased and exacerbated the problems, dangers, and harms that can
be associated with it. People who use drugs in Sweden experience
considerable and endemic difficulties with health, violence, abuse,
and social exclusion, stigma, and discrimination as a result of
Sweden's drug laws, policies, and discourses.
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