Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Políticas de drogas no Brasil contemporâneo: aportes da ciência, da clínica e do liberalismo moderno
2019; Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz; Volume: 35; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1590/0102-311x00125519
ISSN1678-4464
Autores Tópico(s)HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
ResumoThis commentary analyzes the drug policy recently implemented in Brazil in light of concepts from modern liberalism and the scientific literature.The paper addresses four aspects of Brazil's current legal framework on drugs: (i) compulsory hospitalization of persons that use drugs; (ii) complementariness (as opposed to the postulated polarization) of harm reduction and therapies focused on harmful/addictive substance use; (iii) (in)definition of the Therapeutic Community in relation to its classical conceptualization; and (iv) the mistaken understanding -according to documents by Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and the formulations by A. Thomas McLellan -of abstinence as a legal imperative and not as a dynamic process, subject to complications and discontinuities. The contextWe in Brazil are now experiencing an unprecedented combination of a self-proclaimed liberal order and renewed authoritarianism.The latter obviously shares various characteristics with the other variants of authoritarianism, while maintaining historical specificities.I refer interested readers to the historical synthesis on Brazilian authoritarianism by Lilia Schwarcz 1 .I would highlight here the fact that Brazilian society was built on the opposition between The Masters and the Slaves (or between "The Big House and the Slave Quarters", in a more literal translation of Gilberto Freyre's classic Casa Grande e Senzala, although permeated by an attenuation of the magnitude, depth, and brutality of black slavery in the country, as criticized by dozens of intellectuals, including Mário de Andrade, in a work until recently unpublished, Estudos sobre o Negro 2 ).I further highlight the centuries-old persistence of the patriarchal family, that is, the subordination of Brazilian women that persists to this day.As for liberalism, it is important to distinguish between its original formulation 3 and its modern watershed, supposedly underlying the current government's economic matrix, a spinoff of the original formulations by the Chicago School in the 1960s, led by Milton Friedman.Fifty years later and after a series of conceptual shifts in the Chicago School itself, the Brazilian version still adheres to the watershed that prevailed half a century ago.
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