Abusive use and non-abusive care: Assistance to crack users in historic city

• Autor(a) principal: Pacheco, Marcos Antônio Barbosa
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Santiago, Marilaine Pereira, Cutrim, Arlete Penha, Oliveira, Pryscilla Pérgola, Leite, Jose Márcio Soares, Monteiro, Claudia Barbastefano, Loyola, Cristina Maria Douat
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/17905
• topic: Salud pública; Abuso de drogas; Integralidad en salud.; Public health; Street drugs; Integrality in health.; Saúde pública; Drogas ilícitas; Integralidade em saúde.

Background: drug abuse in large urban centers that has directly impacted the growing curve of violence. Objective: To analyze an institutional intervention in the care process for a group of drug users living in homeless situations in the historic center of São Luís do Maranhão, Brazil. Method: action research, using systematic observation, as a strategy and research method, institutional and assistance aspects of the measures, especially the approach and follow-up of health care of assisted people. Results: There was a need for reconceptualization about use and non-abusive care. Conclusions: The different ways of organizing care and assistance to drug users require a care stance that exaggerates the technical competence of a single approach including a more holistic and integrative view.