Mulheres que fazem uso de substâncias psicoativas na contemporaneidade: entre estigmas e preconceitos

Abstract

The present study is a Undergraduete final project in Social Service Course, whose central theme is "Women who use psychoactive substances in contemporaneity: between stigmas and prejudices". The problem consists of main specificities of women who use psychoactive substances, which has difficult access to the main specialized health services. The main objective proposed was to identify these specificities, which range from stigmas, prejudices, passing through internal barriers which concerns personal feelings and external barriers, which consist of what is not within your reach. As for the approach, this is a qualitative study, that through bibliographic and documentary research, try to promote a reflection about the use of substances psychoactive by contemporary women. The study is based on the critical dialectical method of reading reality, that through the categorias historicity, totality and contradiction which allows us to understand not only the specifics of these women, but their daily lives, which is permeated by stigmas and prejudices. This is an exploratory study that uses a mixed or quantitative-qualitative approach within the investigative parameters that are characteristic of research in the social field. In addition to bibliographic and documentary research, data from quantitative research will be used, however, without the application of specific instruments to collect new data. They will only be comparative analyzes between the existing results, consolidated by official institutes. From studies carried out, it was found that women users of psychoactive substances constitute a differentiated segment of the population, with resources and needs, which must be analyzed and treated with a different focus, such as gestation, responsibility to children, traumas of physical and sexual abuse among others. In conclusion, the specialized services are unable to cope with the specificities that these users have. That is why, beyond, of professional practices aimed at guaranteeing and guaranteeing the health of these women, proposals that specialized services in order to contemplate the specificities of this public and mitigate the barriers that these women using psychotropics are exposed.Finally, possibilities of intervention for Social Workers with the users of psychoactive agents were listed. [resumo fornecido pelo autor]