Sorvegliare la maternità: consumo di droghe, disuguaglianze sociali e controllo istituzionale.

[Machine translation] The article analyzes the relationship between motherhood, consumption of illegal drugs and institutional intervention, adopting a constructivist perspective of the life course. Starting from community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) participatory research, conducted with mothers with experience using illegal psychoactive substances, the contribution explores how mothers' consumer careers and life courses are socially constructed and evaluated over time through the intertwining of daily practices, support networks, available resources and institutional regulatory and control devices. The analysis is based on 16 in-depth interviews and uses a comparative device inspired by the logic of sliding doors, combining an empirical story with an alternative story based on empirical evidence. The comparison shows how divergent biographical outcomes depend on the configuration of life courses and on the active role of institutions in translating maternal practices and difficulties into risk indicators for the well-being of children. The results highlight how medicalizing and individualizing frameworks produce forms of epistemic injustice, with relevant implications for critical and anti-oppressive social work.