Philip Haynes, Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Brighton, and Odd Lindberg, Senior Lecturer in Social Work and Sociology at the University of Orebro, contrast the Swedish approach to drug abuse, based on social rehabilitation, inclusiveness and abstinence, with the workings of the British harm-reduction system.
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