Sexmissbrukets underliggande orsaker skiljer sig åt och detta beror på flera faktorer som exempelvis internet, alkohol och droger. Denna studie behandlar sexmissbrukets utveckling under åren 1990 till 2000. Studiens syfte är att visa på den samexistens som begreppet anses ha med andra missbruk som visas genom de faktorer som kommer att nämnas i studien. Studien som är en litteraturbaserad översikt bygger på sex artiklar och en rapport som analyserats utifrån systemteorin. Studien visar att sexmissbruk kan tolkas på olika sätt beroende på den målgrupp som kommer i kontakt med begreppet.

The aim of this study has been to take part of six ex-alcohol addicts? narratives about their lives with starting-point in which factors that has been significant and/or determining to be able to leave a life in abuse and what change this process has implied for their identity. To achieve the purpose with this study has three questions been formulated. These are what in the person?s life have been important in the process of a life free from alcohol, what were specific and decisive that effected the decision to stop using alcohol and what is the attitude to them self and their new role as an ex-alcohol addict. Alcohol is a drug that is legal and accepted in the society and it´s hard to discover an addiction.

Gistrand, C. has studied ?Explore young people's problematic backgrounds and their views on the opportunities and obstacles in order to improve their health?, University of Gävle in the course theory and method of application and thesis work.The object of the study was to give young people space to make their voices heard. Further on to make unemployed youths perceptions of perceived opportunities and obstacles in their way to get a job, internship or study, visible. The object of the study was also to show youths? views of health and what they thought about the contributions to society.The method was qualitative, with three semi-structured interviews with men between 20-24 years old (and problematic childhoods, for instance alcohol and drug use) was conducted..The result shows that unemployment increases the risk of illness and unhealthy habits.

My purpose in this essay is to show how the staff in an institution for young women with a drug addiction, are looking at themselves as "normal" and the young women as "abnormal", and to analyse how sex and gender are made, in interaction with sexuality and class.The essay is based on interviews and a participating observation. The study is made on a compulsory institutional care institution for young women with a drug addict. To analyse the material I use theories by Beverly Skeggs and Judith Butler.In the study I show that the staff in the institution define themselves as "normal" and intend to act as models for the clients, which are described as "abnormal" in terms of being destructive, boundless and sexual. In making class and gender the staffs efforts to make clients learn domestic values and to make their bodies feminine are shown to be central processes. Sexuality is by the staff seen as something happening only between men and women, and defining relations between men and women as always sexual creates gender.A central tension that I show in the essay is that between normal and abnormal, both in relation to differences between the staff and the clients and in relation to the staffs roles as both models of normal life and of violent and violating keeps of order.

The aim of this study is to gain an increased knowledge and deeper understanding of compulsive gambling and its consequences in today?s society. Gambling addiction will be described and analysed by a selection of experts, therapists and people with an addictive gambling background. The basis of the empirical research has been undertaken by a qualitative design with interviews consisting of three fundamental themes. The research group of eight participants included four gamblers, two therapists and two specialists.

The purpose of this essay was to examine the different aspects of motivational work with active heroin-using clients from a social workers point of view. The further purpose of this essay is to also examine what the advancements and discouraging factors in such a motivational work might be. To attain this purpose we focused on these following questions:What might motivational work with active heroin-using clients look like?According to the social worker, what factors constitutes for a beneficial progress in the engagement of motivational work with active heroin-using clients?According to the social worker, what constitutes for discouraging factors in the engagement of motivational work with active heroin-using clients?We chose to do a qualitative study by conducting separate interviews with six social workers working in a social services agency, all of whom are working with drug-addicted adults. We then analyzed the answers by using an abductive research strategy, testing the collected empirical data against our chosen theoretical perspectives.

Bakgrund: Internationell forskning visar att det från vårdpersonalens sida existerar dömande attityder gentemot patienter med drog- och alkoholmissbruk. Patienterna tillskrivs som grupp negativa egenskaper såsom att de är aggressiva, manipulativa och farliga och att arbeta med omvårdnad av dessa patientgrupper har lägre status än omvårdnaden av andra patienter. Motsvarande studier gällande hur det ser ut i en svensk kontext har däremot inte identifierats och således existerar här en kunskapslucka.Syfte: Studiens syfte var att beskriva sjuksköterskors syn på patienter med missbruksproblem inom psykiatrisk omvårdnad.Metod: Studien har genomförts som en empirisk intervjustudie med kvalitativ ansats. En fokusgruppsintervju genomfördes med fyra aktiva sjuksköterskor som deltagare. Fokusgruppsintervjun analyserades med hjälp av en kvalitativ innehållsanalys.Resultat: Analysen resulterade i åtta kategorier som urskilts ur materialet: Kontakt genom vinnande strategi, Den självvalda kontaktlösheten, Den hämmande vårdmiljön, Människan som helhet, Den individreducerande vårdkulturen, Livsöde, Den onda cirkeln samt Frustration.Slutsats: Studien visar att sjuksköterskan inom psykiatrisk omvårdnad har en humanistisk människosyn som grund för omvårdnad av patienter med missbruksproblem.

Inledning: Överdrivna sexuella handlingar och de risker de kan medföra har beskrivits sedan antiken. Hur man sett på problemen har varierat beroende på vilket religiöst eller politiskt perspektiv man utgått ifrån. Man har ännu inte kunnat enas om vilken term som bäst beskriver problemen, vilket försvårar forskningen och skapar osäkerhet om hur problemen ska behandlas. Den term som allt oftare används bland allmänheten och i media är sexmissbruk. Allt fler söker hjälp för problem som de själva kallar sexmissbruk.