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Governance of substance use as a by-product of policing in Norway: A historical account

AIM: The aim of this article was to study governance of drug use in Norway through a historical account. METHOD: A genealogy was conducted through the study of documentation and legal texts from the 1600s until contemporary times. FINDINGS: Based on legal texts addressing people using substances (bo...

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Autores principales: Johansen, Kenneth Arctander, Debaere, Virginie, Vandevelde, Stijn, Vandenbroeck, Michel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7434132/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32934530
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1455072518787619
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author Johansen, Kenneth Arctander
Debaere, Virginie
Vandevelde, Stijn
Vandenbroeck, Michel
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description AIM: The aim of this article was to study governance of drug use in Norway through a historical account. METHOD: A genealogy was conducted through the study of documentation and legal texts from the 1600s until contemporary times. FINDINGS: Based on legal texts addressing people using substances (both drugs and alcohol) various strategies for governance of drug use appears. The first section describes the emergence of institutions where people with alcohol problems were confined in a system originating the Dutch discipline houses. The second section describes the poor laws of the 1800s and the practice of the local poorhouses. The third section takes a look at the Vagrancy Act of 1900 and the state-owned labour camp at Opstad. The fourth section discusses the establishment of the sobriety boards and their role in confining alcoholics at cure homes. The fifth section describes developments in post-world-war Norway, with increased attention to illicit substances. CONCLUSIONS: The terminology justifying interventions is increasingly medicalised. Descriptions of the “drunkard” that appeared in 18th-century legal texts as immoral and free are contrasted by a positioning of this character as being a slave to his drinking in 20th-century political discourses, or as substance-dependent patients in the 21st century, alongside concerted efforts to dissolve open drug scenes.
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spelling pubmed-74341322020-09-14 Governance of substance use as a by-product of policing in Norway: A historical account Johansen, Kenneth Arctander Debaere, Virginie Vandevelde, Stijn Vandenbroeck, Michel Nordisk Alkohol Nark Research Reports AIM: The aim of this article was to study governance of drug use in Norway through a historical account. METHOD: A genealogy was conducted through the study of documentation and legal texts from the 1600s until contemporary times. FINDINGS: Based on legal texts addressing people using substances (both drugs and alcohol) various strategies for governance of drug use appears. The first section describes the emergence of institutions where people with alcohol problems were confined in a system originating the Dutch discipline houses. The second section describes the poor laws of the 1800s and the practice of the local poorhouses. The third section takes a look at the Vagrancy Act of 1900 and the state-owned labour camp at Opstad. The fourth section discusses the establishment of the sobriety boards and their role in confining alcoholics at cure homes. The fifth section describes developments in post-world-war Norway, with increased attention to illicit substances. CONCLUSIONS: The terminology justifying interventions is increasingly medicalised. Descriptions of the “drunkard” that appeared in 18th-century legal texts as immoral and free are contrasted by a positioning of this character as being a slave to his drinking in 20th-century political discourses, or as substance-dependent patients in the 21st century, alongside concerted efforts to dissolve open drug scenes. SAGE Publications 2018-08-06 2018-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7434132/ /pubmed/32934530 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1455072518787619 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Vandevelde, Stijn
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title_fullStr Governance of substance use as a by-product of policing in Norway: A historical account
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title_short Governance of substance use as a by-product of policing in Norway: A historical account
title_sort governance of substance use as a by-product of policing in norway: a historical account
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7434132/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32934530
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1455072518787619
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