This article discusses an approach to the institutional clinic for drug addicts, based on psychoanalytically oriented therapy, to demonstrate the potential results for patients treated under this system. This approach seeks to rehabilitate drug users as individual subjects and citizens. The treatment uses a strategy and an intervention which respect subjective and logical time, leading the subject to desire treatment. Drug use is considered a “farmakon operation,” rather than a clinic structure, an approach which helps professionals a clarify the patient’s pathological situation and intervene clinically in both severe and light drug addictions.
Drug addiction; psychoanalysis; institutional clinic; social symptom; drugs