Produção de práticas de cuidado em saúde para usuários de álcool e outras drogas no município de Santa Cruz do Sul.

Abstract

It is known that from the onset of the Psychiatric Reform and the constitution of public policies about drugs the use of alcohol and other drugs was thought as a public health issue. In this perspective, the main goal of this research was to map and understand the care practices developed by the staff workers of public health system that focus on people who are alcohol and drug users in the county of Santa Cruz do Sul. To gather data for the research the following procedures took place: participation in the staff meetings; conversation meetings with each staff team; participant observation in group activities at each one of the services. The data was analyzed using a content theme analysis, three theme categories were built. The first category shows and discusses the notion of network that came up in the groups. In the second category, it is identified and (re)discovered some care-taking practices within the context of the services being studied. At last, the third category highlights and problematizes the perspectives of the work of the teams. The research allowed for the understanding of the services that offer care to alcohol and drug users of Santa Cruz do Sul, as well as the challenges, articulations between the services and which perspectives are under this care-taking practice.