Política de redução de danos: concepção de profissionais de centros de atenção psicossocial de álcool e drogas.

Abstract

Damage Reduction (RD) is a set of policies and practices that have objective to reduce the damages associated with the use of psychoactive substances in people who can't or don't they opt for abstinence. Faced with the inclusion of this policy in the integral attention to users of Alcohol and other Drugs. In this perspective, this study was had as general objective to analyze the conception of health professionals of centers of psychosocial attention of alcohol and drugs on the policy of damage Reduction. The methodological assumptions of this study were anchored in the quantitative-qualitative approach of the exploratory-descriptive type. For the lifting data and extraction of the empirical material an interview script of the semistructured type was used. The qualitative data obtained were presented in the form of frames in the light of the Discourse of the Collective Subject and the quantitative data were presented in the form of tables. The results expressed that despite the inclusion of DR as a public health measure for health promotion and prevention of diseases, there's still a lack related to the implementation and conception of the theme, however they understand politics and its strategies as a effective measure of care, when considering the individual and it’s singularity, particularity and autonomy and as protagonist of the construction of his care. The study indicates that despite the advances achieved and the recognition that the DR currently had attained, there' s still a lot of that advance to be made to include effectively damage Reduction Programs as a form of to carefull. It's hoped that this study may be a tool an awareness for managers, professionals and students on the applicability of these strategies, highlighting their importance as a new model of the care attention of a humanized care that promotes better quality of life and access to services and information of the health the users of alcohol and drug.