AS CONTRIBUIÇÕES DA EXPERIÊNCIA CRISTÃ NA REABILITAÇÃO DE PACIENTES DEPENDENTES QUÍMICOS

Abstract

The present study makes us think about the link established between the Christian religious experience and the rehabilitation of users of chemical substances. In this sense, it proposes a brief history about the use of psychotropics and their resignification over the centuries. In addition, it aims to list elements and spaces, pertinent to faith and religiosity through Christianity, that present themselves as potential motivators of healthy behaviors and, concomitantly, are capable of influencing the prevention of harmful use of alcohol and other drugs, as well how about the recovery of these drug dependent patients. In the meantime, this text confronts an important public policy challenge, since, as noted, drug addiction is established in response to the helplessness that results from the conflict between the individual and the environment in which it is inserted, with repercussions in the multiple spheres of human life and of the community, and as a result, it is a landmark of enormous social concern. In addition, it prints opportune looks when it comes to user care, fostering dialogues between professionals in the health and religious sciences, in order to guide them towards a practice that recognizes the multiple devices to combat the drug problem. To meet the purposes of this study, an exploratory research, of a qualitative nature and bibliographic character, was added to a field research, whose source of data collection and analysis is a questionnaire composed of objective questions, carried out by internal chemical dependents of the Cristolândia Project.