Flera delar av beroende: en empirisk studie om processen att leva med och återhämta sig från beroende.

I befintliga teorier reduceras beroendet ofta till en dominerande faktor, såsom gener, fysiskt beroende, (en) psykologisk störning, viljestyrka, familjeproblem, social eller kulturell påverkan. Genom att undersöka dessa faktorer var och en för sig riskerar forskningen att missa viktiga aspekter och krafter som bidrar till beroende. I detta projekt används kvalitativa metoder för att samla in självbiografiska data från personer med olika former av substans- eller beteendeberoende med syfte att undersöka olika faktorer som bidrar till och upprätthåller beroende samt hjälper individen att återhämta sig från beroende.

Avhandlingsprojektet ingår i det större projektet ”"Addiction" som ett mönster av relationer i förändring: Jämförelser av självbiografiska berättelser om olika beroenden” som finansieras av Vetenskapsrådet och leds av professor Jukka Törrönen.”

Ytterligare information om studien går att finna på: Beroendeberättelser.com

 

 

 

I urval från Stockholms universitets publikationsdatabas

• Online gambling venues as relational actors in addiction: Applying the actor-network approach to life stories of online gamblers

  2020. Jukka Törrönen, Eva Samuelsson, Malin Gunnarsson. International journal of drug policy

  Artikel

  Background

  With the emerging technologies of the Internet and smartphones during the last decades, the gambling environment has undergone a massive transformation. In Sweden, and Europe in general, online gambling has more than doubled since 2007.

  Method

  The paper studies online gambling venues (OGVs) as relational actors of addiction. By drawing on the actor-network theory (ANT) and assemblage thinking, we examine how OGVs, as actors in specific networks of attachment, enable the development of gambling addiction and facilitate its continuation. The data consists of life story interviews with 34 online gamblers.

  Results

  Online gambling venues extend the scope of gambling opportunities through space, providing an easy portable 24-hours-a-day access to gambling online and on smartphones. This increases the spatial mobility of gambling to diverse contexts. By linking gambling to more unpredictably evolving patterns of relations, online gambling venues also increase gambling's temporal mobility to intrude in the habitual trajectories of everyday life. By enhancing the gambling mobility through space and time, OGVs simultaneously extend the scope of situations in which gambling may transform from a controlled activity into an addiction. It is then that the actor-networks of gambling infiltrate in the actor-networks of work, domestic life and leisure, and start to feed processes where they are translated to serve the interests of gambling.

  Conclusion

  By giving us tools to challenge simplistic and taken-for-granted explanations of gambling addiction and by allowing us to grasp the flux and changing nature of addiction as a relational pattern of heterogeneous contextual attachments, the actor-network theory can help us to understand the complexity and multiplicity of gambling problems. The knowledge on what kinds of contextual attachments in diverse actor-networks enable harmful gambling and sustain unhealthy relations helps practitioners to focus treatment interventions especially on these contextual linkages and their configurations.

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