Consumo de drogas e internação compulsória : construção de um perfil sociodemográfico de usuários de um CAPS AD III.

Abstract

The growing number of hospitalizations for drug users has caused periodic discussions in the areas of Public Health and safety. Social control, which has as one of its devices this type of hospitalization, the population high alert about what the media reinforces the "Crack epidemic". In addition, the marginalization and stigmatization that this same population builds and legitimizes daily produces fields into which the drug becomes justification to a miserable life. About that, the compulsory internment is present in the speech of treatments based on the paradigm of abstinence, which strengthen the subject the idea of weakness in front of the drug. Reflecting on these aspects, this study sought to build a demographic profile of drug users who were therefore admitted compulsorily. The development of this profile was carried out from the analysis of medical records of drug addicts of a public service, called CAPS AD III, a city in Rio Grande do Sul. As a primary objective of this work, the demographic profile found condensed the following characteristics: young men, between 19 and 30 years; singles, with school records hindered and approximately half of the users without criminal involvement. As for suicidal behavior, 25% of the population analyzed said thoughts of death or suicide attempts. This survey quantified data relating to compulsory hospitalization and, from these, proposes discussions and reflections on the health practices and taking care of this part of the population.