Abstract
The traditionally strict alcohol policies of the Nordic countries have all been liberalized. This leads to an increasing policy gap in relation to the drug policies. A prognosis is made about the future of drug policy in Sweden based on the development of alcohol policy – the market will ultimately decide.
Highlights
As so many times before in the last 50 years, the Swedish parliament has, in the course of the last parliamentary year, called for tougher sentencing and increased coercive measures as a means of dealing with the drug problem (Edman 2019)
By discussing the dissonance within the Swedish intoxication policy – both between alcohol and drug policies, and between the conceptual understanding of intoxication problems and the implemented intoxication policies – I seek to promote a greater understanding of the current alcohol and drug policies
The focus of alcohol policy on social problems was challenged in the years following the Second World War
Summary
As so many times before in the last 50 years, the Swedish parliament has, in the course of the last parliamentary year, called for tougher sentencing and increased coercive measures as a means of dealing with the drug problem (Edman 2019). The examples follow a clear post-war trend: while the drug political measures have grown more stringent – or have at least retained their severity – the alcohol policy has become ever more. The plans of prohibiting the distilling of spirits for home consumption in 1718 were the result of the need to strengthen the public finances in a country almost ruined by the wars of King Karl XII (Edman 2016a). The focus here is on what I have chosen to call the Swedish intoxication policy This refers to the public and political discussions about and proposals to solve problems that arise from intoxication from narcotic preparations and/or alcohol. Most questions lend themselves to being used in intoxication policies and, as we shall see, a range of societal issues have been discussed with intoxication as a political tool
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