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CARLI, Alessandro Diogo De et al. "... gives a will to give of life...": senses of the health-disease process by drugs users. Rev. Psicol. Saúde [online]. 2021, vol.13, n.4, pp. 153-169. ISSN 2177-093X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.20435/pssa.v13i4.1291.

The objective was to analyze and understand the percepton of drug users relaton to the health-disease process that permeates their way of life. Qualitative study, conducted with 38 men undergoing treatment for the control of use of narcotics. The data were collected through interviews that were transcribed, submited to Content Analysis and problematzed by the Heideggerian Phenomenology. Emerging empirical categories denoted family influence, the impact of using licit and illicit drugs, and the recogniton of disease as marking traits of the health-disease process. It was concluded that although the health-disease process is a complex phenomenon in a specific vulnerable group, it was possible to explore significant elements that carry within themselves the concreteness of being-there in their experiences. For the interviewees, the health-disease process reflect their ways of life while being-there, being-with, being-with-the-world, as well as influenced by family issues and recogniton of chemical dependence as a disease causing sufering psychic.

Palabras clave : chemical dependence; phenomenology; health-disease process; stress psychological.

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