"A gente é desmoralizada e humilhada, chamam de noiada, drogada, cracuda...": as faces do uso do crack por mulheres

Abstract

This research addresses and deepens the use and abuse of psychoactive substances (SPA) in the context of capitalist society and develops an analysis of the theme from a gender perspective. This work has the general objective of understanding the determinations that encompass the abusive use of "drugs" by women from their specificities, with a main focus on women who use crack. In methodological terms, the information systematization process took place through bibliographic and documental analyses. This work is the result of an applied quanti-qualitative research. A survey of data and numbers was carried out from a sample extracted from the records of CAPS AD III East (Natal/RN) for the year 2021 and, later, the analysis and investigation guided by the historical-dialectical materialism that us provided us to understand this reality as an expression of the social issue. We used the techniques of observation of the reality of the service of the subjects assisted and subsequent recording in a field diary during a mandatory internship at the institution. The research showed that the use of psychoactive substances by women is permeated by specificities and complexities associated with the female universe, which permeate social indicators established from sociocultural, political and economic determinants. In summary, the profile of women users of psychoactive substances, especially crack, was traced.