Redução de danos na política nacional sobre drogas: avanços e desafios

Abstract

Introduction: Harm Reduction (HR) refers to policies, programs and practices that aim to reduce the adverse health, social and economic consequences of the use of legal and illegal drugs, without necessarily reducing their consumption. Objective: To analyze the reality of care practices based on the HR Policy carried out by professionals who work with users of alcohol and other drugs in the Centro de Atenção Psicossocial (CAPSad) in a city at the Zona da Mata Mineira. Method: Qualitative research, carried out with 11 graduate professionals; for data collection, a semi-structured interview was used, whose results were analyzed by the Iramuteq software and by Bardin's Content Analysis. Results: The corpus got a performance of 78.72%, in the content analysis six classes emerged for analysis. Conclusion: Although the HR Policy is recognized by professionals as a promising proposal, difficulties in incorporating it into the planning of daily activities are mainly due to the lack of investment by the Government, which leads to fragmented care, resulting in a lack of credibility of the population regarding its effectiveness, opening margins for the rise of discourses that move towards setbacks in this field.