The Lost Link: Social Work in Early Twentieth‐Century Alcohol Policy

Roiblatt, Rachel E.; Dinis, Maria Cisaltina da S Nunes

doi:10.1086/424542

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“…They were evident-although inaccurately so-in early lay explanations for who became addicted to drugs and why. For example, moral weaknesses, lack of character, and spiritual defi cits were at one point thought to uniquely distinguish those who became addicted from those who did not (reviewed by Jarvik, Cullen, Gritz, Vogt, & West, 1977 ;Roiblatt & Dinis, 2004 ). Formal interest in discovering who is more or less apt to develop an addiction or dependence on alcohol or drugs has been a core concern since the very early days of scientifi c investigation of the effects of how different people respond to drugs and alcohol (e.g., Hollingworth, 1924 ).…”

Section: Core Explanatory Challengementioning

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Interactions and addiction.

Shadel¹,

Scharf²

2012

APA Addiction Syndrome Handbook, Vol. 1: Foundations, Influences, and Expressions of Addiction.

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Section: Core Explanatory Challengementioning

confidence: 99%

Interactions and addiction.

Shadel¹,

Scharf²

2012

APA Addiction Syndrome Handbook, Vol. 1: Foundations, Influences, and Expressions of Addiction.

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“…(WPR) framework, this paper examines policy discourses about women's alcohol consumption. Social workers have a long history of influencing alcohol policy formulation, such as through legislative change, establishing care institutions and supporting the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and prohibition in the USA (Roiblatt and Dinis, 2004). However, the development of self-help groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) in the 1930s has meant that social work involvement in alcohol policy has declined (Roiblatt and Dinis, 2004).…”

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Questioning policy representations of women’s alcohol consumption: Implications for social work

Smith

Zufferey

Bilic

et al. 2021

Qualitative Social Work

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This study draws on Carol Bacchi’s What’s the problem represented to be? (WPR) framework, to deconstruct policy discourses of women’s alcohol consumption. It examines Australian policies such as in the National Alcohol Strategy (2019–2028) and Australian Guidelines to Reduce Health Risks from Drinking Alcohol ( NHMRC, 2009, 2020 ). It found that policy discourses particularly focus on the effects of women’s alcohol consumption as ‘harms’ to unborn children, by emphasising women’s assumed reproductive roles, such in pregnancy and when breastfeeding. Social policy tends to reproduce medicalising and normative gendered discourses about women’s alcohol consumption, with disempowering effects on women. This discourse analysis of drug and alcohol policies can contribute to broadening how social workers understand policy representations and the effects of policy discourses on women. The disciplinary power of the medicalisation and acceptable/unacceptable categorisation of women’s alcohol consumption means that women can internalise shame and stigma, which is often an obstacle for women attempting to seek assistance. More research is needed about how social workers can co-design policies and research projects with women of diverse sexualities and cultural backgrounds who have been subjugated by these policy discourses.

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“…Social work professionals in North America and Europe were often closely linked to the temperance movement in combating the social problem of inebriety, as well as active in forming early policies and legislation concerning substance misuse [4,5] . Their social approach was formulated as an alternative to the moral one, and did not challenge the medical approach.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Instead, proponents of the social and medical approaches worked closely together and used the same arguments. Pioneers of the social work profession, such as Jane Addams (in her Presidential address , 1910) and Mary Richmond (in Social Diagnosis , 1917), described inebriety as a disease [4] .…”

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Welfare, Temperance and Compulsory Commitment to Care for Persons with Substance Misuse Problems: A Comparative Study of 38 European Countries

Israelsson

2011

Eur Addict Res

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Aims: The study explores the existence and types of law on compulsory commitment to care (CCC) of adult substance misusers in Europe and how such laws are related to variations in demographics, alcohol consumption and epidemiology in misuse of opiates, cocaine, amphetamines, temperance culture heritage, health and welfare expenditure, and involvement and role of the state in welfare distribution. Material and Methods: Legal information on laws on CCC of misusers was obtained primarily through a survey of 38 European countries. Predictors of laws on CCC, and types of such, were analyzed from country descriptors in multivariate models. Results: A majority (74%) of the explored countries have a law concerning CCC. The most common type of CCC law is within criminal justice legislation (45%), but civil CCC is almost as frequent (37%). These two models of CCC legislation are related to differences in cultural heritage and welfare distribution models. Conclusions: Temperance cultures, i.e. countries with a history of a strong temperance movement, and countries with a Beveridgean distribution of welfare, i.e. through the state, tend to favor civil CCC, while countries with a Bismarckian distribution of welfare, i.e. through insurance with less state interference, tend to favor CCC within criminal justice legislation.

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The Lost Link: Social Work in Early Twentieth‐Century Alcohol Policy

Cited by 5 publications

References 31 publications

Interactions and addiction.

Interactions and addiction.

Questioning policy representations of women’s alcohol consumption: Implications for social work

Welfare, Temperance and Compulsory Commitment to Care for Persons with Substance Misuse Problems: A Comparative Study of 38 European Countries

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