O significado do tratamento para jovens dependentes químicos: um estudo com drogadictos dos Centros de Referência em Farmacodependência - Zona Sul - São Paulo

Abstract

The aim of this research is to verify which meaning the drug addicted teenager gives to the treatment. Therefore, the sustained hypothesis is that the way a teenager gets into the institution will make him face the treatment in a different manner. It has been used pharmacy and medical contribution related to the history and evolution of Chemistry Dependency and ways of treatment; as will as contribution from anthropology, psychology and sociology for concepts of adolescence, youth and drugs. Finaly it has also used contribution from Social-Historical Psychology and some concepts developed by Vigotski and non-directive interviews description and qualitative analysis. The sample includes 8 interviws with 15 to 21, year old male teenagers who get into the treatment by themselves (1), by compulsory way (2) and by parents recomendation (5) , at "Centros de Referência em Farmacodependência" in Santo Amaro and Jabaquara's branches. Such factors as the drugs vision, family enviroment, the socio-cultural context and the emocional aspects contributed to a possible life reconstruction for each interviwed teenager. These results showed that the ways of entry to the institution were not the only aspects determining the reaction of boys to the treatment