“Que horas ela volta?” A trajetória de mulheres periféricas que usam drogas na busca por acolhimento nos serviços de saúde

Abstract

Discussions about drug use by women have been an issue neglected by the State and these women's lives continue to be treated through prohibition, incarceration and the discourses produced about them by those who call themselves experts. With the aim of listening to the experiences of these women, based on stories told in their own voices, this study sought to investigate, using Intersectionality as an analytical tool, how the process of welcoming peripheral women who use drugs in services takes place. health system in the public network, in the city of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais. For this, the Genealogy of Experience was adopted as a methodological process, in order to (re)trace the paths with these women through the Psychosocial Care Network and other places in the city, which were presented by them throughout the research, houses and shelters, social assistance services, bus stops and traffic lights, located both in the central region and on the outskirts of the city. Together with the women, an embroidery group was created in one of the services, which was marked by exchanges and experiences about the crossings of drug use in the lives of each of them. Based on the movements generated throughout the process, this research discusses the violence that is brutally directed at women who use drugs, the wounds that are generated in their lives, and the constant denial of their rights and humanity, which it involves the construction of barriers to access to housing, quality food, education and health care. Furthermore, they maintain that gender violence, structural racism, social inequalities permeate the reception process and the bodies of these women, which reproduces the oppression suffered by them in other territories, which means that the use of drugs is resorted to ease the pain caused by these and other wounds, such as abandonment of children, rejection from family, homelessness and violence suffered in their romantic relationships. Thus, it is pointed out that there are absences and gaps in the process of welcoming women who use drugs into services, which denounce the way in which these women's lives have been treated by the State and that such shortcomings are crossed by the War on Drugs Policy, which in Brazil, they still target them because they are women, black people, peripheral people and drug users.