Engelsk titel: Social service and addiction treatment: rehabilitation or harm reduction?
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Författare:
Ekendahl, Mats
Email: mats.ekendahl@socarb.su.se
Språk: Swe
Antal referenser: 50
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 11123057
Sammanfattning
AIM –This paper aims to depict and analyze how professionals in Swedish social services legitimize
two ideologically controversial help interventions, methadone maintenance and coercive treatment.
Should addiction treatment primarily rehabilitate clients, or should it be a short-term measure for
harm reduction? This question has been less and less discussed in Sweden during the past few years,
as it has been accepted that all help should be based on science, not ideology – irrespective of it
being aimed at harm reduction or rehabilitation. However, there is a lack of research regarding how
crucial players in addiction treatment relate to this development, especially when applied on socially
vulnerable clients. MATERIAL & METHOD – The empirical material consists of 33 qualitative interviews
with social workers from Stockholm and its surrounding area. The interviews are analyzed through
discourse analysis. RESULT – When describing their work, the respondents’ discourse assumed
and advocated progress in client case management. CONCLUSION – By emphasizing concepts such
as lifestyle change, client motivation, psychosocial support and aftercare the social workers could
construct the two forms of treatment as less ideologically extreme, but also as undoubtedly aligned
with the political goal of rehabilitation.