Drug scene

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A drug scene is a social milieu in which users of illegal drugs meet in order to trade or consume these drugs .

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This article or section needs revision: Completely undifferentiated. There is no clear distinction between addicts and controlled users, nor between drug dealing and drug use, or between prohibited and permitted drugs at all. In addition, primarily the heroin addict scene in German-speaking countries seems to be meant, not other drug scenes .-- Transience ( discussion ) 12:50, 28 May 2020 (CEST)
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Drug scenes are particularly noticeable in large cities. Drug scenes in which drugs are not traded or consumed clandestinely but rather publicly are referred to as public or open drug scenes. Many drug scenes formed in large cities in train stations. However, they were often displaced into the slums close to the station by interventions by the railway operators.

Because some drug addicts (slang: " junkies ") finance their drugs with crime and prostitution, among other things, the drug scene can be linked to the crime of acquisitions .

From the point of view of the law enforcement authorities, it appears necessary to combat open drug scenes. Police operations against open drug scenes mostly only result in local relocations. One example of a failed displacement is the Platzspitz in Zurich, known as Needle Park . After the park was closed in 1992, the drug scene shifted to the neighboring Upper Latvians . The removal of the world-famous open drug scene at Berlin Zoo station moved her to Kreuzberg in Görlitzer Park .

In recent years calls have been growing louder to help addicts with, for example, consumption rooms , withdrawal programs or psychosocial support , instead of worsening their often hopeless situation through criminalization.

See also

Portal: Drugs  - Overview of Wikipedia content on drugs

literature

  • Peter Loos: Lexicon of the drug scene - contributions to pharmacology, psychology, medicine, jurisprudence, criminology and criminalistics of the drug scene in the Federal Republic , Volume 2, Hoheneck-Verlag, 1973
  • Frieder Theyson, Dieter Bewegungs: Nowhere - Therapeutic expedition into the impassability of the drug scene , Athenaeum, 1987, ISBN 3810801801 .
  • Kurt van Es, Frans Bosman: European drug scene - politics between repression and tolerance , Rasch and Röhring, 1995, ISBN 9783891365243
  • Bernd Belina : Criminal Rooms. Function and ideological legitimation of entry bans. Kassel 2000, ISBN 3-8979-2018-2 .
  • Thomas Krebs: expulsion. Cities in the fight against outsiders. Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-932512-11-1 .
  • Andrea Grimm (Ed.): The open scenes of the big cities. Drug addiction, homelessness and prostitution in the central locations of the cities. Documentation of a conference of the Evangelical Academy Loccum from October 31 to November 2, 2001. Rehburg-Loccum 2003, ISBN 3-8172-6401-1 .
  • Thorsten Finger: The open scenes of the cities. Hazard prevention, municipal and road law measures to maintain an honest public space. (A legal study). Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-428-12210-3 .
  • Christiane Bernard: Women in drug scenes: drug consumption, everyday life and control politics in Germany and the USA using the example of Frankfurt am Main and New York City , Springer, 2013, ISBN 978-3-658-01329-5 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Focus on Frankfurt's Bahnhofsviertel: How the city remains helpless against dealers, junkies and crime | STERN.de from stern.de, April 11, 2018, on web.archive.org
  2. ↑ Video "Berlin Kreuzberg - Open Drug Scene" | Midday Magazine | ARD Mediathek from ardmediathek.de, April 21, 2015, on web.archive.org