Relações familiares e institucionalização de jovens usuários de drogas de abuso

Abstract

The family, the family relationships and the parents and siblings' behavior can act as protecting institution or health problems unchaining in your members including, the use of the abuse drugs. The present study has as objective analyzes the role of the family and of the family relationships in the initiation and continuity to the use of abuse drugs for institutionalized youths, accomplishing measured partner - educational. It accomplished a study of descriptive and traverse character, adopting the youth and your family as analytic units. The place was the Center of Recovery New Life - Cervin, located in the municipal districts of Rolândia and Cambé - Pr. The subject of the study were the youths, of both sexes institutionalized the month of March of 2007, and a responsible relative by the youth. As sources for collection of data the youths' institutional handbooks and two routes were used for interview, one for the institutionalized youth and one for the relative. The data obtained by the interview with the youth and your relative were compared to each other; described and analyzed according to the thematic technique of content analysis. The project received favorable seem of the Committee of Ethics and Researches in human beings of the State University of Maringá, with seeming 043/2007. The results are presented in two parts. The first describes the youths' family and social context and the second the family relationships and the initiation and continuity to the use of abuse drugs in the youth's perception and of the relative. Eleven young people were interviewed, in your majority of the masculine sex, with age between 13 and 18 years and directed for institutionalization by judicial order. The abuse drug more used initially it was the marijuana, in pairs or in groups, but in the moment of the institutionalization the crack was the drug used by nine young (82%). Four youths lived together in nuclear family (36%), in 10 families there were involvement of another member with abuse drugs (91%) and six families it was told infractional acts of other members (55%). The categories to understand the family relationships and the use of drugs were: knowing the main caretaker, young relationship and main caretaker, identifying the violence interfamily, sharing of decisions in the family group, beginning the use of drugs, living the presence of drugs in the family, behavior family front to the use of drugs and the reasons of the institutionalization. Disagreements were verified among the relative's answers and to the youth's vision about your family, the initiation and the continuity of the use of drugs, however, at the end of the analysis it verified that the mother was the caretaker more mentioned by the youths in the childhood, in five families the mother didn't possess a stabilized union and in many families negligence signs and abandonment were evidenced. The relationship of some of the youths with your caretaker in the childhood is of sorrow and resentment, and the violence interfamily was present in seven families. The sharing of the decisions among the members of the families never happened or eventually happened and the psychological violence was verified in two families. Parents, uncles and the youths' cousins were users of abuse drugs. With relationship to the behavior of the family front to the use of drugs for the youth, the repressive attitudes had the same proportion of the orientation attitudes and advising. It considers, however, that the family relationships influenced in the use of abuse drugs for the youth.