This is a study o arcotics cotrol. The aalysis focuses o public decisio-makig ad legislative processes rather tha o the patters ad characteristics of the o-medical drug cosumptio. As such, it evolved aroud the theoretical discussio about the relatioship betwee the strategies adopted o arcotics cotrol ad the ature of the addictio problem, with specific emphasis upo a uderstadig of the geeratio of mechaisms ad processes of social cotrol.