Redução de danos: problematizações acerca da concepção teórica

Abstract

The article is the result of research that sought to analyze how historical and dialectical materialism can support the understanding of harm reduction practices described in the book, “Other Words on the Care of People Who Use Drugs”. The results of the study demonstrate that the articles treat drug use as a social problem and emphasize the socially constructed prejudice against drugs and, consequently, against people who use drugs. However, such summaries that relate drug abuse to social, political and cultural phenomena do not center the analysis on the material production of life as a determinant of the lack of citizenship and prejudice against people who abuse drugs, as they start from a postmodern perspective that conceives the relationship between drugs and such social, political and cultural determinants from the perspective of biopolitics.