Negro Drama: uma etnografia sobre famílias de usuários radicais de crack

• Ano de defesa: 2017
• Autor(a) principal: Castro, Odilon [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Family; Women; Crack cocaine; The state; Public policy; Família; Mulheres; Crack; Estado; Políticas públicas; Saúde coletiva
• Link de acesso: https://sucupira.capes.gov.br/sucupira/public/consultas/coleta/trabalhoConclusao/viewTrabalhoConclusao.jsf?popup=true&id_trabalho=5157850; http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/41874

History shows us that psychoactive substances have always existed, and indicates that – much like families – these substances will always continue to exist. Psychoactive substances have passed through a long process of criminalization and have been made illegal based on obscure criteria; nevertheless, some of these legal measures have been (and continue to be) reviewed. As a result, certain substances previously made illegal in the United States – such as alcoholic beverages – not only became legal once again; their use has also stimulated in countries such as Brazil. Drugs long established as illegal, like cocaine, reconfigure our lives across different territories. Reality imposes itself, and the use of cocaine has not ended. Instead, prohibiting cocaine produces a type of war in which both users and non-users die. However, even though drug use is a complex phenomenon, with many different variables among users and among both permitted and illicit substances, the Brazilian state opts to deliver illicit drugs into the hands of millionaire drug traffickers. These traffickers, in turn, commercialize – in a clandestine way – the same substances that the government has made illicit. Yet this state, responsible for determining the prohibition that leads to war, also invests both human and economic capital in guarding, disciplining, punishing, controlling, and treating the people most directly involved with drugs (that is, when it does not exterminate them). Given that the state’s actions to prevent and repress the use of drugs has failed, the variety of substances available increases on an almost daily basis, as does their use. Simultaneously, the fear and disinformation spread by the media also increases. Therefore, society’s dependence on substances increases. This ethnography describes two years of drug policy in São Paulo state, Brazil, through the Re-beginning Program (Programa Recomeço). The study’s principal focus is on understanding two families that sought support through the Re-beginning Program: who they are, where they are from, and what they think about the phenomenon of drugs. Two women, through their own theories, describe the dramatic situations in which they live. Two mothers. Two Black women. Rebeca and Beth. Two translations. Two wagers. Different choices based on the same phenomenon. The study observes the construction of drug policy in the state of São Paulo before turning its gaze toward the families of people who use drugs classified as illegal. Thus, the principal aim of this ethnography is to describe and translate repetitions, differences, and movements.