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Narkotikaproblem eller problem med narkotikarelaterad dödlighet? : En poststrukturell policyanalys av Socialstyrelsens åtgärdsplan “Nationellt utvecklingsarbete för att motverka narkotikarelaterad dödlighet” (2017) / A drug problem or a problem with drug-related mortality? : A poststructural policy analysis of The National Board of Health and Welfare’s plan of action “Nationellt utvecklingsarbete för att motverka narkotikarelaterad dödlighet” (2017)

The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction reports that drug-related deaths have almost tripled in Sweden between year 2006 and 2015. The aim of this study is to elucidate in which ways drug-related mortality is produced and conceptualized as a problem within policy discourse by critically analyzing The National Board of Health and Welfare’s policy proposal “Nationellt utvecklingsarbete för att motverka narkotikarelaterad dödlighet” (2017). Using Bacchi’s poststructural approach to policy analysis “What’s the problem represented to be?”, two problem representations are identified, namely that drug-related mortality is conceptualized as a problem with drugs and drug use in general as well as a problem due to lack of knowledge and information. This is based on underlying assumptions that all illegal drug use is hazardous and that the solution to the drug problem can be obtained by objective knowledge production thus leaving both the practice of gaining knowledge as well as current Swedish drug laws unproblematized. The effects are, to name a few, that proposed policies mainly targets “all people who use drugs” with a focus on providing “more of the same” which in extension overrides the group of high-risk drug users along with a structural understanding of drug-related mortality.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:su-157513
Date January 2018
CreatorsSterge, Ellinor, Åsebring, Lisa
PublisherStockholms universitet, Institutionen för socialt arbete - Socialhögskolan, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för socialt arbete - Socialhögskolan
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageSwedish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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