Rådande diskurser hos individer med koppling till skadereduktion : En kritisk diskursanalys

Sammanfattning: Prevailing discourses within individuals associated with harm reduction - A critical discourse analysis This qualitative study examined ways to talk about harm reduction with focus on syringe exchange, drug users and addiction to find prevailing and conflicting discourses in individuals who are linked to syringe exchange programs. The respondents were selected by their profession, and we chose both nurses and doctors at the clinics, and also politicians that worked within the field, to get different perspectives. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, transcribed and analyzed using discursive analysis tools. The result showed three different themes which we termed social acceptance around addiction, restrictive drug policy with focus on care and human encounter. These themes evolved in to various moral and medical discourses as well as a discourse on the human encounter because of the way our respondents spoke about the different phenomena.