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Enfermería Actual de Costa Rica

On-line version ISSN 1409-4568Print version ISSN 1409-4568

Abstract

CARAVACA MORERA, Jaime Alonso. Drug contemporaneity: 100 milligrams of reflections. Enfermería Actual de Costa Rica [online]. 2016, n.31, pp.227-242. ISSN 1409-4568.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/revenf.v0i31.22826.

Introduction:

The aimof this study is to reflect on the phenomenon of drug taking as a binding link the crack today.

Development:

The scandal linked to the phenomenon of drug is not on the illegality of the action, or the risks of injury to health or financial cooperation with criminosas transitions; for this reason, for analysis they must be studied other contextual variables related to contemporaneity act in different economic, social, political, semantic and representational dimensions.

Conclusions:

Drugs seen as commercial products should be treated as such, not only because they are immersed in a process of accumulation in a society that has characteristics strictly post-colonial and capitalist; but their behavior exchange, consumption, supply and demand makes them answer that own intrinsic reality of merchandises In this regard, the analysis of the phenomenon of drugs should be made from its historical particularity and contextualized the various implications of which come.

Keywords : crack; drugs; illegal-drugs; legal-drugs.

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