We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Redução de danos: tendências em disputa nas políticas de saúde.
- Authors
Moreira, Carla Regina; Baldini Soares, Cassia; Sivalli Campos, Celia Maria; Mourão Laranjo, Thais Helena
- Abstract
Objective: to identify the underlying harm reduction trends in Brazilian drug policies. Method: The research, qualitative in nature, used in-depth interviews with experts in the field. The recorded and transcribed material was analyzed via the content analysis method. Results: The analysis exposed the following conceptions: drug use is a disease, and its associated health practices should be treatment, rehabilitation and social reintegration. These conceptions deviate to some extent from the war on drugs approach, and support the adoption of harm-reduction practices, proposed by public health. Less expressively, critical conceptions which clearly distance themselves from the prohibitionist approach and from public health may be seen, in line with the perspective of collective health, for the implementation of emancipatory harm-reduction practices. Final considerations: Harm-reduction conceptions and practices reveal the underlying conservative, liberal, and critical tendencies in Brazilian drug policies.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; SUBSTANCE abuse prevention; SUBSTANCE abuse treatment; HEALTH policy; CONTENT analysis; INTERVIEWING; REHABILITATION of people with mental illness; PUBLIC health; SOCIAL problems; QUALITATIVE research; HARM reduction; INDEPENDENT living
- Publication
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2019, Vol 72, p326
- ISSN
0034-7167
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/0034-7167-2017-0671