Objective
with a comprehensive care focus, to examine practices in care for problematic drug users.
Method
this qualitative study of 14 users and nine health professionals at a Psychosocial Care Center in Pernambuco, Brazil, in 2015, was approved by the research ethics committee. The empirical material was produced at four reflection workshops, and analyzed by discourse analysis.
Results
the
... [Show full abstract] service users’ and health personnel’s discourses converged towards welcoming care practices able to build relationships of trust and lasting bonds, thus facilitating therapeutic processes that both groups characterized as producing solutions.
Conclusion
the care provided to problematical drug users is progressing towards comprehensiveness, by way of user embracement practices that users and professionals describe as dialog-based, affective and potentially leading to solutions in a context favorable to autonomy and stronger citizenship.