Abstract

MADALENA, Tatiana Silveira  and  SARTES, Laisa Marcorela Andreoli. Crack cocaine users in treatment in Therapeutic Communities: profile and prevalence. Arq. bras. psicol. [online]. 2018, vol.70, n.1, pp. 21-36. ISSN 1809-5267.

This study describes the prevalence and profile of men and women, which are crack cocaine users, attended in three Therapeutic Communities in Zona da Mata, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. To evaluate the prevalence, we initially interviewed all 34 individuals who entered the TCs in a two-month period, of whom, 82.4 % was for crack cocaine use. In a second moment, 54 men and 18 women were interviewed using a questionnaire containing sociodemographic information, Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (Assist) and Addiction Severity Index (ASI6). The prevalent profile was formed by men, unmarried, aged 30, who did not work, lived with and depended on the family, school delay, middle-class and Protestant religion. Men and women were dependent on multiple drugs, with historical and recent violence, legal and psychiatric problems, good social and familial support, and few health problems. Women presented specificities of psychiatric problems and history of sexual abuse and child custody. Results were compared with profiles of studies with clinical and no clinical samples and provide better understanding of the population served in TCs, newly recognized by the SUS, but little known.

Keywords : Crack Cocaine; Therapeutic Community; Prevalence; Health Profile.

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