Moderation and coexistence with psychoactive substances use: Approaching a Drug Consumption Room in France



Título del documento: Moderation and coexistence with psychoactive substances use: Approaching a Drug Consumption Room in France
Revue: Anuário Antropológico
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Número de sistema: 000549188
ISSN: 2357-738X
Autores: 1
Instituciones: 1Tribunal de Justiça do Distrito Federal e dos Territórios, Brasilia DF, Distrito Federal. Brasil
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Volumen: 48
Número: 1
Paginación: 238-248
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Resumen en portugués This article aims to understand how it is for psychoactive users to experience the use of substances in a Drug Consumption Room (DCR) for harm reduction and how it impacts their lives and subjectivities. The work starts from the premise that the DCRs" polemical implementation is an attempt to answer to the social process that turned the use of psychoactive substances into a crime/health issue and created the pathological, excluded, and punishable category of drug user/addict. A qualitative methodology was used blending interviews and a direct observation of the Strasbourg"s DCR (ARGOS). The results show that psychoactive users attending that structure are persistently concerned about hygiene, responsibility, and guilt, which signalizes a searching for adhering to social order intercalated with substance use, however, still transversed by controversial feelings related to their consumption. Also expressing their autonomy, they reformulate the meanings they give to their substance consumption and to themselves. In addition, Strasbourg"s DCR"s sensibility to its audience"s precariousness gives clues for reflecting on this facility as an agent who acts by conviction in the face of the tragedy this population lives in.
Disciplinas: Antropología
Palabras clave: Etnología y antropología social
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