Harm Reduction (HR) has been consolidated as an important national movement, promoting the building of a democratic drug policy. In this article we will highlight how HR has been shaped in the face of clashes with totalitarian forces of the "war on drugs" global policy. We will focus on both international and national aspects that came together to build an anti-drug policy. It is within this political scenario that HR is consolidating itself as a different and feasible drug policy. We intend to show the extent to which the inclusion of drug users in collective arrangements of management is an important clinical and political direction of the HD movement, defining a new proposal for health care. From these collective spaces of care, drug users have been able to weave a national network of cooperation and production of a common struggle.
public policies; public health; drug use