Só se vive uma vez: uma reflexão acerca de distintas concepções e práticas do uso de "drogas”

• Main Author: Taniele Cristina Rui
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Estadual de Londrina 2006-12-01
• Series: Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais
• Subjects: Uso de drogas; Marcadores sociais; Corporalidade.
• Online Access: http://www.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/8993

This is a description and presentation of practical conceptions related to the use of drugs and the notions of the body, pain and pleasures connected to this use. Three distinct groups were analyzed: former drug users under recovery treatment, "street children", and university students. Differences in uses can show us ways to question drugs in present days in order to understand social classes and hierarchies, the relationship between users, and how the issue is addressed by the social and health sciences. These are themes that can be deeply studied as a corpus of analysis when considered as the center of a debate.