Pobreza e políticas sobre drogas: documentos de vigilância e tecnificação

Abstract

This study sought to understand how the category of poverty is pre-sented in documents that reference the current local Public Policiesin the field of alcohol and other drugs, in the context of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform. The analys-is of international and national documents was crossed by the phytosociological perspective, situated in the materialistic historical-dialectics tradition. The discussion took place through two thematic categories, reflecting the contradiction, on the one hand, the prohibitionist paradigm, when related to the Brazilian reality of poverty, and, on the other hand, on the technicalization of health care. It became evident that the relationship of the society with drugs is permeated by the process of instituti-onalization through the technicalization of the practices in which individuals and groups are disre-garded in their specific needs, disrespecting the context of the cultural scene, at the mercy of instituti-onal arbitrariness and homogenization of actions.