What does crack have to do with the street? A narrative review with political implications (2011-2017)

Abstract

Object: Scientific production on crack and street published in Brazilian journals indexed in SciELO and CAPES portal. Objective: To review such production, working on the results in order to investigate the recent association between people who use crack and who are on the street. Methodology: Search the SciELO articles online database and CAPES portal, using 3 out. 2017 as a temporal cut, “crack AND street”, “crack AND homeless people” and “crack AND homeless people” as “search term” from 2011 to October 2017. We identified 63 references, whose abstracts were analyzed, arriving at the 20 articles that, effectively, concern the issue of the association between crack and street. Analysis: institutional criteria (title, periodical and date of publication). Categories: “crack and homeless people”; “Crack and street space” and “historical street indexes”. Results: Among the 20 articles assessed, 18 directly linked the consumption of crack to the population living on the street and / or to the street space. The association between crack and street is notable not only in national scientific production on the consumption of "drugs", but also in normative and governmental production.