Drugs and Addictions Policies

Degree: 1
Year: 4
Study program: Social work

Holder: Amra Šabić
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Subject content:
  • Basic conceptual and theoretical knowledge of drug policy (basic discourses, drugs as a social, societal, health and political phenomenon).
  • Different types of drug policy.
  • History of the occurrence of drugs in the Western socio-cultural context and the occurrence of drugs in other civilizations.
  • Implementation of human rights.
  • Models of drug policy (war on drugs, emergence of prohibitionism, public health model, classical liberal model).
  • EU drug policy.
  • Demand reduction policy and practice (prevention in school settings, harm reduction, prisons, treatment, the concept of recovery).
  • The political economy of drugs (drug supply reduction) and the economics of stigmatization.