Adolescências e usos de drogas: intensidades e desigualdades em variações da experiência

Abstract

This research aimed to problematize the linkages between “drugs” and “adolescence”, located as devices of knowledge-power-subjectivation, looking for clues to think about the care (s) in the light of the knowledge of the experiences of young adults when adolescents . Taking as a reference the contribution of research-intervention in institutional analysis and cartography, we use the notions of device and experience in Michel Foucault to trace the following path: a) review of scientific production (indexed articles) on the statement “drugs in adolescence ”; b) discussion of the institution of adolescence - regulated by the developmental device - and the drug device - which produces the drug as a "problem"; and c) analysis of narratives about experiences with drugs in adolescence, carried out through conversation-interviews with six young adults who used drugs in adolescence and with whom we have a relationship beyond the research situation. In a hegemonic way, the notion of risk behavior (to development) is the keynote of the reviewed literature, emphasizing a view of adolescence as preparation for the adult “finish”, and, consequently, care actions guided by the universal norm of abstinencesobriety . Research in the anti-prohibition field gives rise to different symbolic contours, knowledge and practices in which drug use is present, emphasizing the inseparability between subjects, contexts and substances in the production of ways of using and thinking about the care of people who use drugs . The interview-conversations addressed different relationships with the substances, making it possible to trace historical and intensive dimensions of the experience. The narratives sought to point out, in the experiences, the collective vectors of subjectivation that configure ways of living and using drugs. Unlike the “protection-guardianship” perspective, which captures adolescence as a development phase to be controlled towards the productive adult, the narratives of young people signal different collective agencies producing ways of living, feeling and using drugs, pointing out the urgency of listening to pulses of life that pulsate and to propose care actions that privilege normativity as variation and creation of norms for oneself