Gang Talk and Strategic Moralisations in Danish Drug Policy Discourses on Young and Recreational Drug Users
Affiliation: Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research, Aarhus University, DK
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Affiliation: Aalborg University, DK
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Chapter from the book: Tham, H. 2021. Retreat or Entrenchment?: Drug Policies in the Nordic Countries at a Crossroads.
In Denmark, a moralization of recreational use of drugs has lately occurred. The use is interpreted in a neo-liberal framing seeing the user who can chose as selfish, not regarding the negative consequences of drug use in a wider sense, and the legislation has been sharpened.