'El pájaro está en el nido'. Cocaína, cultura y salud: más allá del modelo de adicción. Una etnografía del consumo de cocaína en Reus.

Identifier:  TDX:2448

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX2448

Authors:  Llort Suárez, Antoniu

Abstract:
This research is based on a description of the different modes of cocaine use and the socio-cultural variables affecting the health of consumers and their maintenance of roles and relationships. It follows 18 months ethnographic fieldwork, based on the phenomenological theories of symbolic interaction. This field data is augmented by 32 in-depth interviews with cocaine consumers in Reus. Results of the research indicate that the health considerations plays an important role in cocaine use, but mainly in terms of the risks associated with its illegality and the stigmatisation of this practice. Two models of socio-cultural analysis were used in this study. The first, a phenomenological perspective incorporates social and political theory, and the second examines ‘consumer spaces’: identified as sites that mediate conditions in which people use cocaine. Using these two models of analysis, findings suggest specific proposals in the area of public health. Training and education for both consumers and service providers in all psycho-active substances. Developing opportunities for self-organising among consumers. Partnership between consumers and services towards the reduction of risk associated with psycho-stimulant use. To collaboratively seek to develop proposals towards a regulated market for psycho-stimulants.