The Rotterdam Junkie

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The Rotterdam Junkie

• A History of the Present

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1920-1960

• Repressive approach to drug trade
• More lenient approach to drug users

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Partly because of this deliberate line of
action, no drug problem existed in the
Netherlands during the period 1920-1960 (De
Kort, 1995 338).
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Cannabis Use

• Specific counterulture
• No medical use

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Nico Adriaans
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People expect I will introduce myself as a
heroin addict. Would you introduce yourself and
say Hello, Im a coffee drinker? - Nico
Adriaans
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1987

• Perron Nul
• or
• Platform Zero

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Has the socio-medical approach to drug use
prevented a repressive approach?
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Bukshag

• Escaping the politics of representation

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Drug addiction

• Combining an objective medical discourse with a
  moral one

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Addiction-as-brain-disease
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Todays situation

• Penal approach
• Addiction as brain disease