Utstötta. En intervjuundersökning bland missbrukare av centralstimulerande medel.

• About 1959 attention first was drawn to the abuse of stimulant drugs in Sweden. Swedish laws now now define these drugs as narcotics. This paper is the result of interviews with 50 abusers in Gothenburg. All of them have administred the drugs intravenously with the mean of about 6 years of abuse. Addiction to stimulants is seen as a process where the perception of the effects is changed, and the addicted feels normal only when he is intoxicated The psychological dependence of the addicts is shown when they, in search for the drug, spend all their time and energy, no longer follow internalized norms nor break the laws. Abuse is going on in continously changing groups. The minimum of cohesivness is the result of the social control from outside. In these groups you also find the knowledge of actual supply or the distributers. To hide the forbidden behavior from the society and even from friends and relatives and to secure the supply the addicts have to cope whit the group. In the process of addiction beginners learn to behave as addicts, to accept the habits and attitudes of the grouo as well as to live in a society where buying the drug is illegal.

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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Sociologi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Sociology (hsv//eng)

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