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O ‘problema da droga’ : Sua construção, desconstrução e reconstrução
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Representações negativas sobre a utilização de substâncias psicoactivas predominam desde há muito,
em grande medida, pelo facto de esta prática continuar a ser analisada a partir de uma perspectiva
problemática. Manifestações alternativas persistem, portanto, votadas a uma relativa ignorância,
continuando a evitar-se o debate acerca das suas dimensões hedonísticas e dos padrões de consumo
que são eficazmente conciliados com a vida convencional. Nos últimos anos tem-se assistido, todavia,
a um aumento dos trabalhos académicos (sobretudo antropológicos e sociológicos) centrados em
experiências que não se enquadram em padrões ‘problemáticos’ e que promovem um entendimento
mais adequado sobre esta prática e os seus protagonistas. Tais trabalhos têm mostrado que, tal como
foi construído como um problema, este fenómeno pode ser desconstruído e reconstruído em moldes
alternativos, desafiando, assim, os discursos dominantes. É a este exercício de construção e
desconstrução do ‘problema da droga’, assim como de reconstrução do fenómeno em moldes
alternativos, que dedicamos o presente artigo.
ABSTRACT: Negative representations regarding the use of psychoactive substances have long been prevailing, because this practice continues to be analyzed from a problematic standpoint. Alternative forms of illicit drug use persist, therefore, doomed to relative ignorance. It continues to be avoided the debate about the hedonistic dimensions of illicit drug use and about the patterns of illicit drug use that are effectively conciliated with the ‘conventional’ life. However, in the last years there has been an increase of academic work (mainly anthropological and sociological) that focus on experiences of illicit drug use that do not fit in ‘problematic’ patterns and that provide a more proper understanding about this practice and about its protagonists. Such studies have shown that the use of illicit drugs, just as it was constructed as a problem, can be deconstructed and reconstructed in alternative ways, thus defying the dominant discourses. This exercise of constructing and deconstructing the ‘drug problem’, as well as reconstructing this phenomenon in alternative ways is the main purpose of the present article.
ABSTRACT: Negative representations regarding the use of psychoactive substances have long been prevailing, because this practice continues to be analyzed from a problematic standpoint. Alternative forms of illicit drug use persist, therefore, doomed to relative ignorance. It continues to be avoided the debate about the hedonistic dimensions of illicit drug use and about the patterns of illicit drug use that are effectively conciliated with the ‘conventional’ life. However, in the last years there has been an increase of academic work (mainly anthropological and sociological) that focus on experiences of illicit drug use that do not fit in ‘problematic’ patterns and that provide a more proper understanding about this practice and about its protagonists. Such studies have shown that the use of illicit drugs, just as it was constructed as a problem, can be deconstructed and reconstructed in alternative ways, thus defying the dominant discourses. This exercise of constructing and deconstructing the ‘drug problem’, as well as reconstructing this phenomenon in alternative ways is the main purpose of the present article.
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Consumos ‘não problemáticos’ Consumos ‘problemáticos’ Utilização de drogas ilícitas Illicit drug use ‘Non problematic’ use of illicit drugs ‘Problematic’ use of illicit drugs
Citation
Análise Psicológica, 30, 49-61
Publisher
Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada