Hur gick det för 1960- och 1970-talets svenska narkotikamissbrukare?
What happened to the Swedish problem drug users of the 1960’s and 1970’s? AIMS & DESIGN - In this study we follow a Stockholm birth cohort born in 1953 (n= 14 294) from youth to middle age. The cohort members were in their teenage years when drug abuse was established as a considerable threat to...
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| description | What happened to the Swedish problem drug users of the 1960’s and 1970’s? AIMS & DESIGN - In this study we follow a Stockholm birth cohort born in 1953 (n= 14 294) from youth to middle age. The cohort members were in their teenage years when drug abuse was established as a considerable threat to Swedish society and some of the cohort members themselves became drug abusers (n=431). RESULTS - As expected, life became dramatically worse for those with documented drug abuse when young, than for the rest of the cohort members. While 72 percent of those without documented drug abuse were socially included at the age of 56, the corresponding share among those with documented drug abuse was 18 per cent. And while 5 percent in the former group were diseased at 56, this was true for 38 percent in the latter group. Supplementary analyses showed that social inclusion was also less stable among those with documented drug abuse than among the rest of the cohort, and that the flow from exclusion to inclusion was virtually nonexistent, which was not the case for those without experience of drug abuse. CONCLUSIONS - Gender specific analyses showed that the situation, at least in absolute terms, tended to be even worse for male drug abusers than for women. Gender differences in alcohol abuse, criminality, and with respect to parenthood are suggested as possible explanations to be further studied in future research. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a0397510d83b4118ad71983042714bb02022-12-22T03:14:49ZdanSAGE PublishingNordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs1458-61262015-04-0132210913210.1515/nsad-2015-0013nsad-2015-0013Hur gick det för 1960- och 1970-talets svenska narkotikamissbrukare?Alm Susanne0Associate Professor Department of Criminology Stockholm UniversityWhat happened to the Swedish problem drug users of the 1960’s and 1970’s? AIMS & DESIGN - In this study we follow a Stockholm birth cohort born in 1953 (n= 14 294) from youth to middle age. The cohort members were in their teenage years when drug abuse was established as a considerable threat to Swedish society and some of the cohort members themselves became drug abusers (n=431). RESULTS - As expected, life became dramatically worse for those with documented drug abuse when young, than for the rest of the cohort members. While 72 percent of those without documented drug abuse were socially included at the age of 56, the corresponding share among those with documented drug abuse was 18 per cent. And while 5 percent in the former group were diseased at 56, this was true for 38 percent in the latter group. Supplementary analyses showed that social inclusion was also less stable among those with documented drug abuse than among the rest of the cohort, and that the flow from exclusion to inclusion was virtually nonexistent, which was not the case for those without experience of drug abuse. CONCLUSIONS - Gender specific analyses showed that the situation, at least in absolute terms, tended to be even worse for male drug abusers than for women. Gender differences in alcohol abuse, criminality, and with respect to parenthood are suggested as possible explanations to be further studied in future research.http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/nsad.2015.32.issue-2/nsad-2015-0013/nsad-2015-0013.xml?format=INT- drugslife coursesocial inclusionsocial exclusionmortality |
| spellingShingle | Alm Susanne Hur gick det för 1960- och 1970-talets svenska narkotikamissbrukare? Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs - drugs life course social inclusion social exclusion mortality |
| title | Hur gick det för 1960- och 1970-talets svenska narkotikamissbrukare? |
| title_full | Hur gick det för 1960- och 1970-talets svenska narkotikamissbrukare? |
| title_fullStr | Hur gick det för 1960- och 1970-talets svenska narkotikamissbrukare? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Hur gick det för 1960- och 1970-talets svenska narkotikamissbrukare? |
| title_short | Hur gick det för 1960- och 1970-talets svenska narkotikamissbrukare? |
| title_sort | hur gick det for 1960 och 1970 talets svenska narkotikamissbrukare |
| topic | - drugs life course social inclusion social exclusion mortality |
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