Towards Drug Free Society: A study of Sweden’s Illicit Drug Policy

Abstract

The degree report is about towards Drug Free Society; a study of Sweden’s illicit Drug Policy. Sweden was the country faced illicit drug abuse problem in the 20th century, especially in 1960s. To overcome the increase of the problem Sweden started restrictive illicit drug policy with slogans like drug free society and drugs cannot be accepted in Swedish society etc. The restrictive measures control the dispersion of the abomination; however, illicit drug consumption is still a problem of Swedish society, especially among the adolescents. The main purpose of the report is to investigate the Swedish restrictive drug policy achievements. Further to look at the Swedish model in comparison with other European countries in illicit drug abuse among young adolescents. The report starts the introduction of illicit drug abuse, background and purpose of the study in a Swedish context. Second chapter gives some background about illicit drug abuse trends in Sweden in a historical perspective. Some concepts related to the restrictive drug policy are studied in the third Chapter. Chapter four highlights review of the available literature regarding illicit drug abuse and the policy of the state. Methodological issues are discussed in Chapter five where secondary data of statistics is used for the analyses of the research questions. Findings of the study report are consisted in chapter six. The last chapter is the conclusion of the report. The study report shows that the “Drug free society” task has not achieved so far and findings demonstrate the variations of illicit drug consumption by young adolescents after the implementation of restrictive illicit drug policy. At the same time the restrictive policy has striking achievements in illicit drug abuse consumption in comparison with other European states.