Article
French
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Abstract
The article proposes to reconstruct the historical evolution of intervention modes from social workers facing the phenomenon of the uprising of heroin in the early ’ 80s based on a comparative approach between the cities of Liege and Aachen regarding policy and social work. We reconstruct how Field workers, policy representatives, legal authorities and actors related to public health adapt their practice towards the consumption of “hard” drugs through different modes of cooperation created within different organizational structures that integrates individualized case work, health issues and repressive aspects. At the same time as these services specialize, adapt and find their ways to function in a network, they are facing the issue to reinvent their practices, to adapt their basic training in order to be in line with changing patterns of consumption and changing life courses.