REDUÇÃO DE DANOS E SUA POTENCIALIDADE COMO FERRAMENTA ANTIRRACISTA NA ATENÇÃO PSICOSSOCIAL

Abstract

This essay reconstructs how the genesis of drug policy in the country overlaps with racist actions, associated with eugenic and hygienist policies, targeting the black segments, patterns of consumption of psychoactive substances tended to be referred to the legal or medical field, based on in the prohibitionist paradigm, which becomes hegemonic. From the 2000s onwards, this model is intended for harm reduction, based on human rights and on the participation of users of the Unified Health System, which makes racism visible in its various hues and signals the deconstruction of the dominant imagination. Thus, it contributes to dense epistemological, legal, ethical-political and assistance inflections in the approaches to psychoactive substance consumers, which potentially makes it an anti-racist tool.

Keywords

• harmreduction
• racism
• anti
• racism