STAD, Centre for Psychiatry Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, & Stockholm Health Care Services, Region Stockholm, Norra Stationsgatan 69, SE-113 64, Stockholm, Sweden.
Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy. 2021 Apr 26;16(1):37. doi: 10.1186/s13011-021-00375-w.
The use of illicit substances causes various health and social problems globally. Moreover, open drug use and dealing in urban areas, i.e., open drug scenes, can cause public order problems, lead to the recruitment of marginalized and young people for drug use or sale, and induce feelings of insecurity in the general public. Although some international studies have described various ways to manage open drug scenes, such as law enforcement and social interventions, there is limited knowledge about the facilitators and barriers promoting or impeding the implementation of such interventions. The aim of the current study was to explore how different authorities describe the nature of two open drug scenes in Stockholm and to derive authorities' perspective on facilitators and barriers to implementing interventions to reduce open drug dealing, drug use, and related problems at these locations.
Semi-structured interviews with police officers, security staff, social workers, and municipality officials (n = 21) in the municipality of Stockholm were conducted and analyzed by qualitative content analysis.
The analysis of the interviews generated the following categories: Problems, Interventions, Organizational factors, and External factors, revealing information about the strategic and daily counteracting work occurring at the open drug scenes as well as authorities' perceptions of facilitators and barriers to implementing interventions to reduce open drug dealing, drug use, and related problems. Facilitators included motivated and skilled professionals and organized collaboration between key actors. Prominent barriers were a lack of resources to maintain personnel continuity at the scenes, policies that impede information sharing and put security staff in danger, and people who use or sell drugs without having residence permits.
To increase the possibility of successful implementation of interventions to counteract open drug dealing, politicians and authorities should pay attention to collaboration between key actors, sufficient resource allocation, possible modification of policy governing professional duties, and remedies to the vulnerability of individuals without residence permits.
非法药物的使用在全球范围内造成了各种健康和社会问题。此外，城市地区的公开吸毒和贩毒，即公开吸毒场所，会引发公共秩序问题，导致边缘化和年轻人被招募吸毒或贩毒，并引起公众的不安全感。尽管一些国际研究已经描述了管理公开吸毒场所的各种方法，如执法和社会干预，但对于促进或阻碍实施这些干预措施的因素知之甚少。本研究旨在探讨不同当局如何描述斯德哥尔摩两个公开吸毒场所的性质，并得出当局对实施干预措施以减少这些场所的公开贩毒、吸毒和相关问题的看法。
对斯德哥尔摩市的警察、安全人员、社会工作者和市政府官员（n=21）进行了半结构化访谈，并通过定性内容分析进行了分析。
访谈分析产生了以下类别：问题、干预、组织因素和外部因素，揭示了在公开吸毒场所发生的战略和日常对抗工作的信息，以及当局对实施干预措施以减少公开贩毒、吸毒和相关问题的看法。促进因素包括有动力和熟练的专业人员以及关键行为者之间的有组织合作。突出的障碍包括在现场维持人员连续性的资源不足、阻碍信息共享并使安全人员处于危险之中的政策，以及没有居留许可的人使用或贩卖毒品。
为了增加成功实施干预措施以对抗公开贩毒的可能性，政治家和当局应关注关键行为者之间的合作、充足的资源分配、可能修改专业职责政策以及解决无居留许可者的脆弱性。
