Las leyes de drogas en Brasil y su relación en la producción de políticas de identidad: un análisis de los procesos de estigmatizacióny promoción de la alteridad desde la perspectiva de la Psicología Social Crítica

Abstract

This article aims to present an analysis, in Critical Social Psychology perspective, about the drug laws published in Brazil and its relation to the production of stigmatizing politics of identity and the promotion of alterity. For this purpose, will be presented 1) the development of drug laws and their relationship with the regulatory policies of the sale of drugs and repression of use, 2) the advances and setbacks of drug laws along the twentieth century, especially the separation of the characters: addicted and drug dealer and the subsequent relationship between state, law and medicine, 3) the transformations of politics of identity directed at drug users, especially after the years of 1980 and the implementation of the Policy and Strategy for Harm Reduction. The article will enable the understanding of the legal frameworks that helped to create and justify in Brazilian public sphere the drug enforcement strategies and stigmatizing politics of identity directed to drug users. It will reveal the achieved advances with the implementation of the Harm Reduction policy.