The social stigma appears in the vulnerable populations as social load that prevents from being able to have access to treatments and suitable services of health. The drugs user's populations are victims of the social stigmatization. The heroine's use in Puerto Rico has been increasing across last years. For the year 2007 reports approximately 299,611 (12.0 %) Puerto Ricans whose had used illicit drugs at least once in life. Of the population in the ages from 15 to 64 years there was brought approximately 2.1 % of persons that they used heroine. From this proportion only approximately 10,158 women identified as persons who had tried heroine at some time (ASSMCA, 2008) and only 3,261 (1.1 %) users of drugs (including alcohol users) received appropriated treatment services for drug use (10.5%; was 136 women). Although the population is not statistically significant for socially alarm, it is important to consider the social experiences of the drug user's women to realize treatments adapted for them.

In previous studies there has been demonstrated that the social stigma provokes detrimental situations for the stigmatized persons. These situations go from the social disadvantages, discrimination and the violation of the human rights. For Aggleton, Parker and Maluwa (2003) the social stigma has adverse reactions from: (1) the individual level, causing anxiety and inconvenience; (2) in community level, causing that families and communities sit shame and fault provoking fewer social positive answers; and (3) in a company level as a whole, where it is discriminated in opposition to the persons who possess the disease or condition, and reinforcing the beliefs mistaken before certain diseases and conditions.

An exploratory study was realized, to investigate and to know how a group of Puerto Rican mothers women who were considered heroin users, a group of services providers and persons of social support were producing and forming meanings linked to the social stigma I half-close to the use of illegal drugs, the feminine body and gender, across the experiences of use of drugs, upbringing, maternity, social relations and treatments. In this research work the psychological-social processes of the stigma were observed and understood the social contexts of the users women mothers in Puerto Rico to be able to conceptualize the stigma that this one in the population.