“From exile to redemption” - Drugs and experience in therapeutic communitie
drugs; therapeutic community; treatment experience
The current debate on drugs and users has on its agenda the institutions of Therapeutic Communities as a recurring theme. The study aims to discuss the process of expansion of therapeutic communities in Brazil based on a critical analysis of the sociocultural and political elements engendered in their occurrence. Nevertheless, it analyzes the possible existence of a peculiar type of drug user commonly welcomed in these institutions, as well as the functioning, organization and daily life in these spaces based on the understanding that these users have from their own treatment experience.