Terapia ocupacional e farmacodependência: categorização e atualização das publicações nacionais

DOI: 10.15343/0104-7809.200832.2.13

Abstract

This research aims to update and systemize publications on chemical dependence and occupational therapy. This is a historical, conceptual and
epidemiological study of pharmacodependence, as well as of its therapeutic approaches. The aim of this update is to organize and to describe thematic
categories derived from national articles published about this problematic and to correlate data found with theoretical and procedural proposals found in
the literature of occupational therapy in this clinic. Articles selection was done by means of surveys in scientific databases, and the categories were created
according to the frequency of the themes “risk behavior” and “bio-psychosocial damages and losses”. We found eight articles, one of them approaching
the use of drugs by pregnant adolescent girls; four discussed drug use among students, both of the elementary and secondary levels and the university
level; one approached the relationship between use of psychoactive substances and psychiatric disturbances; and two were about users of injectable
drugs and its close relationship with HIV. The study demonstrates that occupational therapy intervention, described in specialized literature regarding
this population, is based mainly on the application and development of strategies that facilitate opportunities of exchanges and broaden possibilities,
and action is their work tool. We conclude that despite all damages and losses psychoactive substances use can cause to the life of the subject, still it is
a frequent practice that is followed by risk behaviors.