Approaches to methadone treatment: harm reduction in theory and practice

M Järvinen - Sociology of health & illness, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The paper analyses methadone treatment in Copenhagen–as it is described by methadone
users and staff at different outpatient centres. The starting point is a theoretical model …

Trade-offs in substitution treatment: a qualitative study of an opioid substitution therapy clinic as an enabling and a risk-environment

JS Jakobsen, ML Kloster… - Contemporary Drug …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This article presents results from a study of clients' experiences of attending an opioid
substitution treatment clinic in Copenhagen, Denmark. The study is part of a research project …

Drug policy, control and welfare

E Houborg, B Bjerge - Drugs: Education, prevention and policy, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The aim of this article is to understand the recent changes of Danish drug policy, which have
changed both the balance between and the content of control and welfare. For this purpose …

Addiction, drugs, and experimentation: Methadone maintenance treatment between “in here” and “out there”

B Nielsen, E Houborg - Contemporary drug problems, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
In Denmark, outpatient substitution treatment has traditionally been associated with a great
deal of ambivalence and control. Until the late 1990s, a condition for entering substitution …

[PDF][PDF] Danish drug policy: Between repression and harm reduction

E Houborg, K Møller - 2021 - library.oapen.org
In a Nordic perspective, Danish drug policy has traditionally been considered to be fairly
liberal (Bruun & Rosenqvist 1980; Moeller 2019). This has been due, among other things, to …

Enacting (post) psychological standards in social work: From regimes of visibility to user-driven standards and affective subjectification

M Bank - Theory & Psychology, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
This article contributes to the general theme of standards and subjectivity by developing a
governmental strategy for analyzing how different traditions in psychology are used to …

Construction and handling of drug problems in Denmark from the 1870s to the 1980s

E Houborg - Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Aim To present a historical account of how addiction has been conceptualized and handled
in Denmark from the 1870s to the 1980s. Design Analytically the account is inspired by …

Storytelling in drug treatment: How professionals make sense of what they consider inauthentic client claims

D Andersen - Contemporary Drug Problems, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Professionals who provide drug treatment to young people regularly encounter what they
conceive to be inauthentic client claims, that is, claims not in accordance with reality. Earlier …

Recognising life–A study in the atheist micro-bio-politics of drugs

M Nissen - Subjectivity, 2013 - Springer
The author attempts a micro-bio-politics of drugs, starting from an excerpt of an interview
with a couple of young drug users in a Copenhagen social youth work facility that pushes …

Drug policy research at the Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research

B Bjerge, E Houborg, VA Frank - Drugs: Education, Prevention and …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research (CRF) has since its foundation in 1991 had a
strong tradition for research in drug control. However, researchers at CRF have also started …