USO DE DROGAS PSICOTRÓPICAS POR POLICIAIS MILITARES DE GOIÂNIA E APARECIDA DE GOIÂNIA, GOIÁS, BRASIL

• Autor(a) principal: COSTA, Sérgio Henrique Nascente
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• dARK ID: ark:/38995/00130000054w8
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/1549
• topic: drogras psicotrópicas; policiais militares; Raynaud psychotropic military police; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE

Licit drugs like alcohol, and illicit drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, opioids and amphetamines, are used by millions of people worldwide. The damage to health occurring due to the acute or chronic, and also due to psychomotor and behavioral changes that these substances cause the users. A situation that deserves special attention is the use of drugs in the workplace, especially in enterprises and institutions in need of constant concentration and emotional balance in labor activities. Thus the objective of this study was to determine the survey of psychotropic drug use among Military Police members in the state of Goiás, Brazil, and correlate it with the frequency in society in general. This study was done by the application of a questionnaire and toxicological analysis of urine samples collected at the beginning of the work day, for the detection of cannabinoids, cocaine, amphetamines, methamphetamine, opiates and benzodiazepines. Study carried out from March to October 2008 in 12 Military Police units in the municipalities of Goiânia and Aparecida de Goiânia. Voluntary participants (n = 221) were interviewed about drug use employing a questionnaire especially designed by the Centro Brasileiro de Informações sobre Drogas Psicotrópicas (CEBRID). Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics to determine the frequency of licit and illicit drug use. The frequency of use was: lifetime tobacco 39.9%; alcohol 87.8%; cannabis 8.1%; cocaine 1.8%; stimulants 7.2%; solvents 10.0%; sedatives, anxiolytics, antidepressants 6.8%; LSD 0.5%; Bentyl® 0.5%; anabolic steroids 5.4%; last year use tobacco 15.4%; alcohol 72.9%; stimulants 6.3%; solvents 0.5%; sedatives, anxiolytics, antidepressants 3.7%; use in the past 30 days tobacco 14.5%; alcohol 57.5%; stimulants 5.0%; solvents 0.5; sedatives, Abstract xvii anxiolytics, antidepressants 3.7%. The prevalence of psychotropic drug use found for Military Police members in the state of Goiás, Brazil, is similar to the results of national and international surveys with civilians, showing that the former are at similar risk to become users of legal and illegal drugs. Moreover, 299 samples of urine was submitted to toxicological analysis by immunochromatographic screening tests; whose positive results for cannabinoids and amphetamines, were referred for confirmation by GC / MS. Thus, the results were as follows: 0.33% of samples positive for amphetamine, 0.67% of samples positive for cannabinoids, 1.34% for benzodiazepines and 97.66% negative. Thus the total percentage of positive samples were 2.34%. The research carried out by military police with voluntary form showed that military and civil community in general, are subject to similar risks of abuse of licit and illicit drugs and it is an alert to development of testing drugs in the workplace, to avoid the consequences arising from the consumption of psychoactive substances