The war on good research: Debating research ethics and methods on the basis of Jay Levy’s The war on people who use drugs: The harms of Sweden’s aim for a drug-free society (Routledge, 2017)

摘要

I had looked forward to reading this book. The peculiar Swedish drug policy – including the criminalisation of drug use, long prison sentences for drug dealing, and drawn-out political opposition to various forms of harm reduction – has been discussed with increasing intensity during the last 10–15 years. There is now a respectable body of research in the area, but a book which is intended for an English-speaking readership and ambitiously aims to give a balanced picture of the complex questions is still more than welcome. Sadly, Jay Levy has not written that book.