Perfil dos usuários em tratamento no Centro de Atenção Psicossocial – Álcool e Drogas

Abstract

The use, the abuse and the dependence of drugs do not have only to be understood as a cause or a consequence. These are related to a dynamic joint between the spheres biological, psychic and social. The act of consumption of drugs of an individual must be understood based on this work: of the psychological problems that it is facing; of the social political and economic tension that its sociability defines and of the pharmacological property of the drugs. This is a research qualitative and it had as objective: to trace a profile of the users of drugs in treatment in the Guara’s Center of Psicossocial Attention - Alcohol and Drugs of, to identify the main causes that take to the use of drugs and the difficulties to abandon the vice and to investigate the correlation between the vices (tobaccoism, alcoholism, marijuana and cocaine). The collection of data was achive through interview, made with a structuralized half script. The sample was chosen randomly, being composed for 26 users. The results had demonstrate an adult population (average of equal age the 40,92 years old), with predominance of the masculine sex (88.46%), a low profile socioeconomic, being the predominant income of one two minimum wages (61.56%), and only 38.44% have the high school. The curiosity was lead (65.38%) to the first contact with the drugs and the physical and psychological dependences are the main factors that keep the users to the continuous use (61.53%). The self-control is the main difficulty to abandon the vice (42.30%). Suggests that the allowed drugs, are the door of entrance for the use of illicit drugs.