As mulheres no fenômeno das drogas: representações sociais de usuárias de crack

• Autor(a) principal: Medeiros, Katruccy Tenório
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/7563
• topic: Crack; User woman; Mulher usuária; Representação social; Dependência química; Social representation; Chemical dependence; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

The use of drugs constitutes in the last years one of the most serious and hard to solve social phenomena nowadays. The crack has stood out in the Brazilian scenery regarding to other drugs gaining high social visibility. At the moment, it is understood that the consumption of drugs happens in all social groups; however the abusive use of crack by female users has been reported as a growing phenomenon in our society. It was aimed, based on a psychosocial comprehension of the phenomenon, to know and analyze the social representations about the crack, elaborated by female chemical dependents in treatment, using the theoretical contribution of the Social Representations Theory. It is a qualitative research, with descriptive and field character and, performed in Therapeutic Communities and Rehabilitation female Clinics, located in the estates of PB and PE. It was composed of a non-probabilistic sample and by convenience with a total of 45 users. The instruments used were: social demographic questionnaire, analyzed through the calculation of simple frequencies and percentages; the Free Association of Words, with the stimuli: crack and woman user, which was analyzed through the Analysis of Content; and, semi structured interview, that was analyzed with the software ALCESTE. The application of instruments happened in an individual status and in the institutions with help of a recorder; all the ethic procedure that involve the research with human beings were respected. The results indicated that the crack is represented as devastating and disruptive element, as it generates situations of disorder in the family environment, and is responsible for causing abandon or removal of the feminine functions. It was verified that the figure of woman user is seen as a moral order problem, causing a present depressing representation in the society; the dissonance between “being a drug user” and “being a mother/housewife” have influence in these speeches. It was also observed, that the strategies to combat this issue are loaded with of repression and endorsed by speeches that rule the prism of the morality, expressing the inequality of gender that still persists in the relation of the feminine with the masculine. These constructions, at the same time are individual and social; exert influence on how the society faces the chemical dependent woman, reinforcing social barriers that make difficult looking for a treatment and recovery of the users. Therefore, we conclude that it is necessary a look ahead of the stigmatization of the woman, that must be seen, before the role of wife or mother, as a woman that suffers and so needs care. This study provided an opportunity for the debate about this issue, having as objective strategies of combat and contemplation of these problems by public policies that help in the treatment of the chemical dependent woman.