Medicalisation of the social perspective: Changing conceptualisations of drug problems in Finnish social care and substance abuse treatment

AIMS - Starting from the notion of the Finnish “non-medical approach” in the handling of alcohol and drug problems, this article analyses expressions of the medicalisation of drug problems and drug users in Finnish social work and specialised substance abuse treatment. The article focuses on the fi...

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Main Authors: Rosenqvist Pia, Stenius Kerstin
Format: Article
Language:Danish
Published: SAGE Publishing 2014-12-01
Series:Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs
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Online Access:http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/nsad.2014.31.issue-5-6/nsad-2014-0046/nsad-2014-0046.xml?format=INT