Ocupacional roles of women who were abusing psychoactive substances
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2238-6149.v24i3p199-207Keywords:
Illicit Drugs, Occupational Therapy, Women.Abstract
The use of psychoactive substances is an ancient and universal practice, and therefore not being an exclusive phenomenon nowadays. The history of the use of these substances blends with the own history of mankind, its consumption has always happened throughout the ages, in all religions and cultures, with specifi c purposes. The individual who makes drug abuse tends to take the drug addiction as main activity in their daily lives, neglecting, for the most part, the roles previously performed. The aim of this study is to describe and analyze the impact of drug use in occupational roles of women who abuse of the psychoactive substances. It was a quantitative study in which we used the list of Occupational Identifi cation Papers to collect the data. The study subjects consisted of twenty-one women admitted to an institution for treatment of women with problems related to drug abuse, in the period from April to May of 2011, when the data collection happened. Points relevant given the high percentage of women
who abandon the pursuit of occupational roles in consequences from the misuse of the psychoactive substances, and before that the importance of integrating occupational therapist in teams that make up the services that serve this population.