A brief photo-biography of crack users from Rio de Janeiro's metropolitan area: their settings and tools.

This brief report presents and comments pictures taken during fieldwork carried out in drug scenes, located in the metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as part of the National Crack Cocaine Survey, 2011-2013. The pictures depict contrasting settings where the ethnographic and epidemiologic components took place, as well as tools and devices used for smoking crack cocaine. As can be easily visualized, settings and tools tend to be quite variable, frequently beyond/in opposition to stereotypes.