This article discuss some vectors constituents of a genealogy of drugs like a politic problem articulating the concepts of biopolitics and governamentality. Articulate these two concepts with the contributions of research on the history of drugs in the West. From these crosses delimit some points that mark the process of incorporation of drugs as an object of political and state mainly. In this genealogy of drugs biopolitics we explore apparent contradictions about life and death. From the sexuality and racism theme can monitor changes and strategic functions that repressive policies on drug fulfilled throughout the twentieth century. Thus we draw a diagram that emerges with the birth of Christianity and is consolidated with the liberal art of government.
drugs; biopolitics; genealogy