Drugs, Crime and Public Health provides an accessible but critical discussion of recent
policy on illicit drugs. Using a comparative approach-centred on the UK, but with insights …

This article investigates whether the empathic abilities of street-level bureaucrats have an
impact on their discretionary decision-making. The impact of empathic abilities on decision …

We discuss the role of drug consumption rooms (DCRs) as a harm reduction strategy to
prevent drug overdose and show that “welfare states” collectivize the management of risk …

Aims: To end the hepatitis and AIDS epidemics in the world by 2030, countries are
encouraged to scale-up harm reduction services and target people who inject drugs (PWID) …

Prison-based drug treatment (PDT) has increased markedly in the Nordic countries over the
last 15 years. Based on data from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, we outline the …

This article analyzes how and why welfare policies focusing on empowerment as users' self-
management create dilemmas in medically assisted drug treatment in Denmark. Drawing on …

Background Socially marginalised drug users when congregating in the public space on so-
called 'open drug scenes' are often problematised, especially in post-industrial cities which …

Abstract Background In 2004 the Danish parliament repenalised possession of illicit drugs
for personal use after it had been depenalised for 35 years. This article analyses the …

Aim: This article traces recent developments in Danish cannabis policy, by exploring how
“cannabis use” is problematised and governed within different co-existing policy areas …

Empowerment is a keyword in treatment. Users should have the means and possibilities to
influence their treatment and become self-managing. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in …