A Society with or without drugs?
Continuity and change in drug policies in Sweden and the Netherlands
by Dolf Tops

PREFACE

PART I: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
CHAPTER 1 THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
1. 1 DRUG POLICY AS A PRACTICE OF SOCIAL CONTROL
1. 2 THREE CONTEXTS
1. 3 OBJECTIVES
1. 4 WHY COMPARE?
1. 5 THE DATA
1. 6 THE PLAN OF THE THESIS

PART II: THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT
CHAPTER 2 THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT
2. 1 THE INTERNATIONAL CONTROL SYSTEM 
2. 2 THE POST WORLD WAR II ERA
2. 3 DIFFERENT POSITIONS
CHAPTER 3 THE NATIONAL CONTEXT
3. 1 SWEDEN
3. 2 THE NETHERLANDS
CHAPTER 4 CONTROL OF ALCOHOL
4. 1 THE STATE AND ALCOHOL
4. 2 TEMPERANCE MOVEMENTS
4. 3 TREATMENT OF ALCOHOLICS
4. 4 COMPARISON
CHAPTER 5 DRUG PROBLEMS
5. 1 CONTROL OF DRUGS 
5. 2 THE 1960s 
5. 3 COMPARISON

PART III: THE FIRST GENERATION
THE COMMITTEES 
CHAPTER 6 SWEDEN
6. 1 THE PROBLEM DEFINITION
6. 2 SWEDEN'S FIRST DRUG POLICY BILL
6. 3 THE GOVERNMENT TAKES THE LEAD
6. 4 SUMMARY
CHAPTER 7 THE NETHERLANDS
7. 1 THE PROBLEM DEFINITION 
7. 2 THE FIRST GOVERNMENTAL REACTION 
7. 3 SUMMARY

PART IV: THE SECOND GENERATION
CHAPTER 8 SWEDEN
8. 1 EPIDEMIC VS. SYMPTOM
8. 2 DRUG-FREE SOCIETY
8. 3 SUMMARY
CHAPTER 9 THE NETHERLANDS
9. 1 INTEGRATION OF DRUG ADDICTS 
9. 2 SUMMARY 

PART V: CONCLUSIONS
CHAPTER 10 COMPARISON AND CONCLUSIONS 
10. 1 THE INSTITUTIONAL TRACKS IN THE POLICY DOMAINS
10. 2 A SOCIETY WITH OR WITHOUT DRUGS?
10. 3 THE ACTION PROGRAMME 
10. 4 THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT
10. 5 CONCLUSION.
CHAPTER 11 EPILOGUE

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
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