ABSTRACT
This paper exposes an experience of caring relationship that a harm reducer established in her professional life as a member of the Harm Reduction Program of the Federal District (PRD-DF). It aims to share perceptions and experiences of caring for people who use drugs and were in a homeless situation. For this, the experience report was used as a method. Many of the encounters between the harm reducer and people who used drugs resulted in a space of reciprocity based on interactions, dialogues and care, which led to a resignification of caring as an element that questions the reductionist and technicist mode of relationship with others. Seeking a subject-subject encounter and adopting a care perspective that involves living work in action is a great challenge when one is inserted in such an individualistic logic of desires, affections and relationships. These reflections further strengthen the idea of building an act of caring that is more human and that values the multiplicity of subjects.
KEYWORDS
Empathy; Harm reduction; Drug users