TREATMENT SYSTEM FOR DRUG USERS: The expansion of Therapeutic Communities as a form of intervetion.
Therapeutic Communities; Psychoactive Substances; Prohibition; Treatment.
Although the consumption of psychoactive substances by humanity is a practice that can be apprehended in all existing societies, it is at a particular moment in human history, during the capitalist mode of production, specifically in its monopoly phase, that this human-drug relationship begins to be understood as a problem deserving of social and state attention, becoming an object of intervention for various fields of knowledge. As a multifaceted social issue and a scenario of multiple interventions, we start from the thesis assumption that a treatment system for users has been socio-historically constructed over time and that this system is updated and transformed in times of neoliberal capitalism. In this sense, with the aim of elucidating the problematic that involves the issue, namely: moralization, culpability, prohibition, and punishment of the use of psychoactive substances, this thesis project seeks to analyze the socio-historical forms of treatment directed at drug users in light of the contemporary expansion of Comunidades Terapeuticas (Therapeutic Communities) in Brazil as a privileged space of intervention. To this end, it will seek to develop a research with a quantitative-qualitative approach using bibliographic and documentary research and the technique of content analysis to develop an analysis from a totality perspective on the particularities that involve the sociohistorical forms of intervention constructed throughout history in Brazil, with an emphasis on the current context of the advancement of Comunidades Terapeuticas as treatment spaces and the increase in budget transfers to these institutions.