Class Drug and addictive behaviors

This course aims to invite students to risk situations, behaviors and circumstances arising from the consumption of illicit substances (aka drugs). In addition to the conceptual framework inherent to addictive behaviors, elements will be provided on the management of the phenomenon of drug addiction over time, especially since the beginning of the 20th century, but with particular accuracy with regard to the phase of constructive decriminalization . More than the evolutionary trajectory, it is interesting to draw attention to the inherent rationalities. Other dependency regimes will be addressed, such as affective, alcoholic, internet and compulsive gambling.

Cumulatively, it will be necessary to train students in the field of prevention, an area in which many will exercise p

It is unnecessary to emphasize the relevance of these subjects in the teaching and learning of Criminology, especially since future criminologists will intervene in fields where dependencies are frequent.

History of drugs and addiction

Drugs, Power and Knowledge. Scientific foundations

Classifications of drugs. New drugs. Other addictions; addictions without substance. Diagnosis criteria (DSM-V) Drug addiction: subject and behaviour patterns. Nosology. Co-dependency. Comorbility. Lifestyles Addictive behaviour, adolescence and youth: key explanatory theories. Risk situations. Types of occasional consumption. Addictions and ageing

Drug addiction and criminality. Explanatory models. Deviations and drug-crime career. Emerging criminality Criminalization of drugs: periods

The decriminalization policy; new strategies. Political intervention. The Portuguese experience and the creation of CDT : structure; psychologization of intervention and legal-psychological nature. Clinical mechanisms. Consumption prevention: levels; global nature. Risk reduction and harm minimization. Construction of prevention and intervention programmes

In addition to the expository component, contact with social and institutional scenarios will be privileged, for example with the CDT (Commissions for the Dissuasion of Drug Addiction), municipalities and clinical devices, along with several IPSS that work in the field. Cumulatively with the work outside the classroom, reflection on the drug-crime relationship will be promoted based on texts or the presence of specialists. The assessment is divided into the work carried out, with participation in three initiatives promoted or supported by the course being mandatory, with the preparation of a report for each activity (50%) and the completion of a frequency (50%).

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Agra, C., Fonseca, E., Quintas, J., & Poiares, C. (1997). A criminalização da droga: da emergência à aplicação da lei. Lisboa: GPCCD

Agra, C. (2008). Entre Droga e Crime. Cruz Quebrada: Casa das Letras Angel, P., Richard, D. &

Brochu, S., Agra, C. & Cousineau, M. M. (2002). Drugs and crime deviant pathways. Montreal: Ashgate

Negreiros, J. (2006). Injecção de drogas, comportamento sexual e risco de VIH. Porto: LIVPSIC

Poiares, C. (1999). Análise psicocriminal das drogas – O discurso de Legislador. Porto: Almeida & Leitão

Valleur, M. (2002). Toxicomanias. Lisboa: Climepsi