Abstract

ALMEIDA, Daniela Tonizza de  and  AMARAL, Thaísa Vilela Fonseca. DRUGS: PARADOXES IN THE FIELD OF WORK. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) [online]. 2017, vol.23, n.1, pp. 374-386. ISSN 1677-1168.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5752/P.1678-9563.2017v23n1p374-386.

Taking as the starting point the conceptual debate on the term ‘drugs’ and its use in contemporary times, the paper seeks to understand how the deleterious effects of neoliberal policies in the world of labor affect subjects involved in retail drug trafficking and in the abusive consumption of psychoactive drugs considered to be ilicit. In this sense, it discusses the discursive practices around drugs and its effects on the production of a specific corporeality, of a social type that will be targetted to rejection. It is considered that the drug, as a commodity and as a social control device, establishes a political dispute field where life, perceived as precarious, is not recognized. Such strategy serves the economic interests of certain social groups that profit from the incarceration of marginalized populations and the medicalization of life. These debates point out to the urgent overcoming of fallacious war on drugs

Keywords : Drugs; Labor; Abject.

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