Abstract

This article studies the genesis of drug prohibitionism and its epistemological-political effect in the scientific field following the analytical proposal of Pierre Bourdieu. Through a critical theoretical and documentary review, the formation of the field and the scientific habitus that has been strongly conditioned by the process of demonization of drugs and users are problematized through the reflexivity of the scientific field of drugs, based on a pharmacological determinism that associates individual and social behaviors with substances. It is recommended to move towards a scientific revolution that contains a paradigm shift and a transformation of the scientific-professional habitus in the interdisciplinary field, taking into account the social, cultural and political complexity that influence the ways of knowing and intervening reality.