Human Rights and Drug Conventions: Searching for Humanitarian Reason in Drug Laws

Boiteux, Luciana; Chernicharo, Luciana Peluzio; Alves, Camila Souza

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“…Despite this hegemonic approach to understanding substance use, it too is an occupation with multiple, nuanced, complex and even contradictory meanings. Psychoactive substances -whether legal or illegal, prescribed or widely available -may be used as part of spiritual ceremony and ritual (Boiteux et al, 2014;Labate, 2014) or to enhance mood, cognition, occupations (Kiepek et al, 2019b). Such substances may be used to alter the experience of other occupations, such as taking psychedelics to increase the pleasure of listening to music, or using cannabis to make housework more enjoyable.…”

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Substance use and meaning: transforming occupational participation and experience

Kiepek

Ausman

Beagan

et al. 2022

Cad. Bras. Ter. Ocup.

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Introduction We draw on activity theory of concepts to examine ‘meaning of occupation’ and ‘substance use’ beyond preconceived notions of inherent positive or negative experiences. Objective To explore nuanced meanings of substance use and associated occupations. Method An online survey and semi-structured interviews were used to collect data from professionals about prevalence of substance use, substance effects, and personal experiences. In analyzing the interview data, we attended to substance use as a discrete occupation in itself, substance use co-occurring with other occupations, and substance use altering the performance, participation, and experience of occupations. Results Three broad themes related to meaning: i) complex meanings attributed to substance use, ii) meanings of substance use as shifting and variable, and iii) meanings of substance use in the context of other occupations. Substance use enhances occupations, transforms meaning of occupations, and mitigates less desired aspects of occupations. Work, construed as positively meaningful and valued in occupational therapy literature, was a source of stress, unhappiness, and worry; substance use facilitated relaxation and pleasure. Conclusion This study furthers occupational therapy knowledge with respect to implications for conceptualization that extend beyond dualist framings and implications for occupational therapy education, practice, and policy.

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Substance use and meaning: transforming occupational participation and experience

Kiepek

Ausman

Beagan

et al. 2022

Cad. Bras. Ter. Ocup.

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“…The 1961 UN Single Convention on Drugs, its 1971 and 1972 protocols, and its 1988 aggiornamento with the Conference of Vienna, were, in turn, fostered to be converted into domestic legislations by their signatories. This means that the international agreements on psychoactive drugs share a heavier legal and political weight than the pacts on Indigenous peoples' rights (Boiteux, Chernicharo, & Alves, 2014).…”

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The impacts of the drug war on Indigenous Peoples in Latin America: An overview

Labate

Rodrigues

2023

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This paper aims at presenting an overview of the historic and current features concerning the relationship among original peoples, psychoactive drugs, and various forms of anti-drug practices in Latin America. The current expansion of extractivist capitalism in Latin America overlaps with Indigenous peoples' traditional lands, provoking new forms of violence and confrontation. The War on Drugs is being used as a justification to militarize these lands and to criminalize Indigenous populations. Thus, neo-extractivist initiatives in Latin America provoke renewed clashes between Indigenous peoples' interests and local and global elites' purposes. We seek to raise awareness about the relationship between the drug war and Indigenous people's human rights violations as an alert and an invitation for social scientists to engage in theoretical and empirical research on this issue.

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Beyond Religious Freedom: Psychedelics and Cognitive Liberty

Walsh

2013

Prohibition, Religious Freedom, and Human Rights: Regulating Traditional Drug Use

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Human Rights and Drug Conventions: Searching for Humanitarian Reason in Drug Laws

Cited by 8 publications

References 7 publications

Substance use and meaning: transforming occupational participation and experience

Substance use and meaning: transforming occupational participation and experience

The impacts of the drug war on Indigenous Peoples in Latin America: An overview

Beyond Religious Freedom: Psychedelics and Cognitive Liberty

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