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The profile of female crack users undergoing treatment on psychosocial care center for alcohol and others drugs in Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

C.M. Carvalho ,
T.V. Cardoso Vernaglia ,
N. Senju Suzuki  and
D. de Assis Correa Sória
T.V. Cardoso Vernaglia
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Alfredo Pinto School of Nursing, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
N. Senju Suzuki
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Alfredo Pinto School of Nursing, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
D. de Assis Correa Sória
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Alfredo Pinto School of Nursing, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Abstract

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Background

The prevalence of crack cocaine on Brazil reveal an increase since 2009 and represents a public health problem.

Aims

To describe and study the socio-demographic profile of female crack users undergoing treatment in psychosocial care center for alcohol and others drugs (CAPS AD).

Methods

This is a qualitative, ethnographic study of 9 female crack users that was conduct from February until September 2015 at CAPS AD in Brazil. This is study is part of a research entitled “The daily life of female crack users: public service access”.

Results

These women are young, have children that most of them are separated and have at least primary school. All of them have a long time using crack and different attempts of abstinence. They access different public health programs.

Conclusion

The results show the vulnerable profile of female crack users. These findings indicate the need specific public intervention in other to improve social and health conditions.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
e-Poster viewing: Classification of mental disorders
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. S458 - S459
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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