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ArticleNordisk alkohol- & narkotikatidskrift : NAT2018

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

Kenneth Arctander Johansen, Virginie Debaere, Stijn Vandevelde, Michel Vandenbroeck

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Article in Nordisk alkohol- & narkotikatidskrift : NAT, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Kenneth Arctander JohansenUniversiteit Gent Faculteit Psychologie en Pedagogische Wetenschappen, Belgium.
Virginie DebaereUniversiteit Gent Faculteit Psychologie en Pedagogische Wetenschappen, Belgium.
Stijn VandeveldeUniversiteit Gent Faculteit Psychologie en Pedagogische Wetenschappen, Belgium.
Michel VandenbroeckUniversiteit Gent Faculteit Psychologie en Pedagogische Wetenschappen, Belgium.

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Abstract

aimThe aim of this article was to study governance of drug use in Norway through a historical account.

methodA genealogy was conducted through the study of documentation and legal texts from the 1600s until contemporary times.

findingsBased 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.

conclusionsThe 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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addiction treatmentalcoholismdrug policyFoucaultgenealogygovernmentality

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PMID32934530
PMCPMC7434132

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