SILVA, Bárbara Santos Bernardino da    PESSOA, Paulo José Barroso de Aguiar. Suffering and Violence that Prohibitionist Logic Gets in the Lives of Illicit Drug Users. Estud. pesqui. psicol. []. 2019, 19, 1, pp.187-205. ISSN 1808-4281.

The prohibition of drug use is an essentially modern phenomeno, based on an intolerant and repressive stance, a discourse of terror and punishment, which generates violence and suffering to users of illicit substances. We have shown through some theorists how ideological discourses and practices place people who use illicit drugs as social enemies without considering the contradictions and risks they are submitted daily, in addition to going in the opposite direction as to the tendency to update and the potential of the individual. The present study is characterized by a qualitative bibliographical research. With the elaboration of such a study it is able to perceive that the phenomenon of drugs is complex, and is configured as belonging to the condition, as well as the only way to contribute to the expansion of existent senses is through the Harm Reduction policy.

: prohibition; suffering; violence; harm reduction.

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