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The impact of treatments on male masculinity models with problematic drug use in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area

abstract

This article aims at answering the following questions: Which are the connections between
problematic drug use and gender models? Is it possible to reconstruct a model of “male drug
user” by considering experiences and points of view of low-income men who are currently
under treatments for drug use? To answer these questions, we conducted and analyzed 25
interviews to both professionals and managers of institutions that provide treatments and
that follow religious or spiritual orientations in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires, and 21
interviews to men who had assisted to these institutions. By recovering a gender perspective,
we reconstruct the main masculinity features which are attributed to drug users: to be proud
and aggressive, and to be strong and insensitive. Then, we analyze how explanations and therapeutic
proposals affect gender models of interviewed men.

Keywords:

Masculinities; treatments; drugs.

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Authors

Ana Clara Camarotti - Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Daniel Jones - Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Paloma Dulbecco - Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina