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Mats Ekendahl
Researcher at Stockholm University
Publications - 40
Citations - 321
Mats Ekendahl is an academic researcher from Stockholm University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cannabis & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 29 publications receiving 244 citations.
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Cocaine use in Europe - a multi-centre study. Methodology and prevalence estimates.
Christian Haasen,Michael Prinzleve,Heike Zurhold,Juergen Rehm,Franziska Güttinger,Gabriele Fischer,Reinhold Jagsch,Börje Olsson,Mats Ekendahl,Annette Verster,Antonella Camposeragna,Anne Marie Pezous,Michael Gossop,Victoria Manning,Gemma Cox,Niamh Ryder,József Gerevich,Erika Bácskai,Miguel Casas,Josep Lluis Matali,Michael Krausz +20 more
TL;DR: A European multi-centre and multi-modal project was designed to study specific aspects of cocaine and crack use in Europe, in order to develop guidelines for public health strategies.
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Legitimacy through scaremongering: The discursive role of alcohol in online discussions of cannabis use and policy
Josefin Månsson,Mats Ekendahl +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe and analyse the role of alcohol in Swedish online discussions of cannabis use and policy, and find that the participants drew on a prohibitionist cannabis discourse but applied its arguments to alcohol; alcohol was thereby given the role as the "ideal enemy" while cannabis was presented as a harmless plant rejected by society on moral rather than scientific grounds.
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Protecting Prohibition The Role of Swedish Information Symposia in Keeping Cannabis a High-Profile Problem
Josefin Månsson,Mats Ekendahl +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, political discussions about how to deal with cannabis use have become increasingly centered on harm reduction and liberalization in large parts of the Western world, and Sweden is one of the countries with the most liberal policies.
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Danish heroin prescription in Swedish print media: Exploring the silent agreements of harm reduction and zero tolerance
TL;DR: It is concluded that the media representations of Denmark's decision in 2008 to launch heroin prescription reproduced traditional constructions of heroin users as victims in need of society's help.
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The limits of legitimacy: Service providers’ views on maintenance treatment in Sweden
TL;DR: The service providers handled the controversy between science and values by drawing on a decent-life discourse, where opiate addiction problems are solved with a pragmatic stance towards evidence and where only interventions that make patients’ lives allegedly decent are considered legitimate.