"Dom satsar sina liv" : bakomliggande faktorer vid placering av vuxna missbrukare

The purpose of this study was to investigate what facts that matters in relation to where drug abusers get their care and treatment, after a decision of voluntary treatment has been taken, by the social welfare. Another question I wanted to answer, was if there was any deviation between social secretaries with or without the authority to make those decisions in their opinion of what underlying matter that was the most important for the choice of institution. The method used was qualitative interviews with social secretaries from four different municipalities in Skåne. I did also seek information in previous research. The main result of this study was: All persons interviewed emphasized the importance of clients own whish in process of finding right treatment. Still, how the municipalities had made agreement with certain caregivers, was one part of deciding in what institution a person should get his treatment. Another result was that cost plays an important part when it comes to decide which caregivers that should have the agreement with the municipalities. And also, that the importance of "economically thinking" is an awareness spread among all levels of employees, not only among them with responsibility for budget