Crack – entre deslocamentos, territorializações e resistências: uma caça às bruxas contemporânea

Abstract

The use of psychoactive substances was a practice needed on the individual and the community life of human beings. In many societies, the space of leisure had always been associated to the idea of staying “out of home” - on the edge of the dominion imposed by the family power representatives - to be instead on a state of transition, of trance, and of fun. Among of dislocations and territoriality, the crack migrates to the central region of São Paulo City, and configures newappropriation logics, that will be the target of power demonstrations carried out through the State’s hegemony and medicine’s paternalism. Thus, Bioethics dilemmas that come since the moment in that there are conflicts between the determination to keep the personal autonomy of the individual, and the self-control to protect the autonomy of others, is analysed.. When the ethic character of human relations is exchanged for a technification of the ethical problems - where the human problems pass for a moral judgment that transforms them into specialized technical problems susceptible to professional solutions that intervene on the individual sphere - it means to submit yourself to the sphere of influence that transfers to the State and to medicine the right to decide about life, and about what concerns to the ethics of life.