THE FRAGMENTS REVEAL THE CITY: THE TERRITORIALIZATION OF CRACK AND ITS IMPLICATIONS.

In line with the seasonality of media guidelines crack generates intense public debate, raising numerous approaches and investigations. The scenes of use, commonly called "cracolândia" spread by the scenarios of the city setting up as a social and health problem, often treated as a source of "urban violence" and the target of repressive and prohibitionist actions. The overall objective is to analyze the process of the crack territorial in certain areas of the city and has the specific objective to understand the vulnerabilities that are crack users in these subject areas. Because of the complexity surrounding the issue of drugs in urban settings, the research object becomes the target of several disciplines, which ends up enriching the debate. Search shall be joint contributions of sociology, geography, bioethics and philosophy seem facilitate understanding and deepening of a theme dear to public health, but not restricted to it. Thus, we will draw up a methodological approach for the research - literature review - which aims to offer the reader a broad theme approach, facilitating the understanding of the emergence of crack and the profile of these users in Brazil. Opposed the idea of "cracolândias" discuss the concept of "psychotropic territories" as a strategy that contributes to the reduction of stigma and prejudice. In a state of "effective vulnerability" crack users are denied their fundamental rights, leading to the emergence of people worthless and thus have no place in the dominant city.