Crack - mídia |
Pérola-Azul: "I believe, it's one of the worst drugs ... it's devastating ..." Ametista: (...) "I think it's more than a drug, and yes, we know that it causes a more rapid dependence on others, but that it has been mediatically important that people end up ignoring the higher alcohol consumption ... Jaspe: And the media also see the crack user as a zombie, right? Diamante: "I think would I agree with the media issue, but I believe it extrapolates this thing" (...) |
Belief in the idea of light and heavy drugs. Crack as a byproduct of a culture marked by violence and lack of rights. Thus, the media appears as a disseminator of the idea "crack is death", "crack user is like a zombie. |
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Ametista: "(...) There is this thing (...) people think that if someone smoked a stone, he/she will be like a zombie (...) in practice they see this, and that is what bothers me, this media-related question that if you smoked a crack stone you're already addicted to that, (...) you're like a zombie, you've lost all your hygiene condition, (...) and it's not like that. I know people who smoked a stone and they said I don't want that for me." Peróla-Dourada: "The media said this: if you smoked the first crack stone, you will get hooked, you will die: this was the media's viewpoint. Moreover, I know crack users who have been smoking crack for a long time ... a lot ... much time…also, they're alive ..." |
Crack as a social construction that is made about the drug and about who uses it. The discourses locate the media contribution to the construction of the discourses on the drug and users, reinforcing the exclusion structure.
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Crack Pleasure and "pain" |
Ágata: "(...)I think that's one side. One side is pleasure. Which disguises my hunger ... Água-Marinha: "From pain, and sadness" ... Ágata: "(...) We hear people saying that the trip is not good anymore ... it's a trip where I get persecuted ... I get paranoid ... walking to and fro all the time like crazy, fleeing from I don't know who. For God's sake help me, I can't take it anymore ... get me out of this ..." |
Crack is not destructive to everyone who uses it, as well as it is not indiscriminately pleasurable. |
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Água-Marinha: "(...) The drug itself, the drug itself is a vehicle of pleasure, at first, and that can become something ..." Quartzo: "(...) Harmful" Água-Marinha: "(...) But, I think the big issue is not even the drug itself; it's the person ..." Granada: "Yes, when people manage to organize themselves, using the drug, but without affecting her life while the family, professionally, and so forth... that's fine." Água-Marinha: "I think many of these vulnerabilities lead people to use the drug" |
The burden of social vulnerabilities, often before the use of the drug and which, for both good and bad, implies in the user's relationship with the drug. |
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Crack - death |
Rodocrosita: "Yet another drug ... powerful... Infallible ... Defeating ..." Rubi: "Crack is a fake crack" Rodocrosita: "Crack is something of a knockout" Rubi: "Unfortunately, it's the death drug." |
The professionals' speech shows crack as yet another drug, whose only possible path is death. |
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Crack - Identity |
Cristal: "(...) However, we also go to crack land and see addicts. I was terrified seeing the man lying down with his mud-ingrained hair (....) "How do they sustain themselves in this ... addiction if they are there, so dirty, that you see that would look like those ... it was part of it..." Peróla-Verde: "The ground?" ... Peróla-Dourada: "Garbage..." |
The crack user as someone who breaks with hygiene basics. An abject body. |
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Safira: "(...) They are much more forsaken individuals. I found it harder to work with them, much harder ..." Rubi: "They look as if they're from another world..." Rodocrosita: "They look delirious" |
The professionals have a critical view of the symbolic and material conditions of crack users' lives. Users are understood as "much more forsaken", and the idea that they are destitute of desires, or rather, alienated by the drug prevails in the discursive construction. |
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Heavy drugs - mild drugs |
Peróla-Dourada: "Marijuana, looking at..." Ametista: "...The effects..." Peróla-Dourada: "No... Looking at the harm-reduction viewpoint, marijuana is a less harmful drug than crack" Peróla-Azul: "And is also the most indicated drug for quitting crack" Peróla-Dourada: "Because, really, if get to look at it, someone begins with milder drugs" |
The prevailing belief is that there are milder and heavier drugs. This belief, however, makes it simplistic by oversizing the biochemical properties of the psychoactive drug, while at the same time undervaluing the subjects' relationship with the substance, context, and function of the drug in their behavior and life history. The idea of escalation emerges. |
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