Crack Cocaine and involuntary hospitalization in Brazil: state intervention in users' autonomy

ABSTRACT

A discussion about the compulsory hospitalization of crack cocaine adult users, under the light of protection bioethics approach shows that crack cocaine users' protection policy should be scoped to social policies, rather than the centrality of medical resources, since most of consumption associated issues is not in that context, but intertwined with social, educational and legal ones. Thus, trigger emergency policies guided by the involuntary hospitalization causes the resumption of intervention models widely criticized by health professionals, for researchers in humanities and social sciences, perpetuating a setback.

KEYWORDS:
Personal Autonomy; Cocaine; Crack Cocaine; Compulsory Hospitalization of Mentally ill Person; Bioethics