The study claims to analyze the construction of the subject who use
drugs (specially heroin) with the aim of providing psychosocial proposals
for social health intervention. The used method is ethnography. The
type of analysis is “Discourse Analysis”. The results indicate that the
identity of heroin’s users is connected with positions activated during
the interactions users-professionals in different ordinary contexts. The
positions are: therapeutic, drug-sensory, consumerist, legal-repressive
and group-community. From the understanding of these positions, it is
possible to obtain keys for intervene in the prison’s contexts for instance,
the interest of understanding of tensions between users and substance,
the interest of considering the stigmatised image of drug’s users, and the
potential of promoting dilemmas in users and professionals.
Keywords: Users of heroin, positions, identities, social health intervention