Abstract

RIBEIRO VALERIO, Andréa Leite  and  DO NASCIMENTO, Wanderson Flor. Drugs, human rights, and bioethics: double vulnerability of street drug users. rev.latinoam.bioet. [online]. 2017, vol.17, n.2, pp.63-75. ISSN 1657-4702.  https://doi.org/10.18359/rlbi.2677.

Brazil's first national drugs policy was created in 2002 through a presidential decree. Since then, it has been reassessed in 2003 and updated and realigned, ceasing to be an anti-drug policy and becoming a policy on drugs. In 2006 there was the creation of a national drug policy system. Since then Brazil has experienced advances and setbacks regarding care to vulnerable social users of drugs. In this way, the present text tries to problematize, through the reflection of national and international legislation and texts, the double vulnerability: Drug use and the street situation from a bioethical and human rights perspective We conclude that the Bioethics can contribute to this debate, especially on those who live the double vulnerability of drug use and homelessness. This paper also analyses the human rights of those living on the streets, through a bioethical approach.

Keywords : drugs; street population; bioethics; human rights.

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