A tale of two epidemics

the deactivation of ATENDE II in the middle of covid-19 in Cracolândia

Authors

  • Ygor Diego Delgado Alves Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp)
  • Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22478/ufpb.2447-9837.2020v2n10.55811

Abstract

We investigated in this article how, in the context of covid-19, the old negative representations around an unlikely crack epidemic are revived in a discourse of contamination and danger; who end up subscribing to the abandonment of drug users to their own devices. We use mainly academic and journalistic works published about the period. We contextualize the dismantling of the ATENDE II service in the panorama provided by the media news of the Covid-19 epidemic period and by academic articles that deal with the crack epidemic. We were able to see how the deactivation of ATENDE II was done amid a certain climate, promoted by the media, in which old spectra about the crack epidemic are resumed, which would have as a vector a kind of semi-dead monster or zombie.

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Author Biography

Ygor Diego Delgado Alves, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp)

Antropólogo, doutor em antropologia social pela UFBA e pós-doutorando em saúde coletiva pela UNIFESP.

Published

2020-11-07