Educação ambiental em uma unidade de recuperação para dependentes de álcool e outras drogas

Abstract

The use of drugs, legal and illegal, has been used since the dawn of humanity, with religious purposes spiritual, medicinal and social. Today its use has become an epidemic condition. Health education is strongly related to the reduction of the phenomenon of drug use in this context, the Group Support Service Drug Recovery (SERDEQUIM), University Hospital of Santa Maria (HUSM) is an effective tool in the process of maintenance treatment and their social integration. Faced with this phenomenon of alcohol and other drugs, have environmental issues that impact on Human Health. Thus, the support group emerges as a possibility to promote actions for Environmental Education. The practices were held in five meetings with users of alcohol and other drugs involved in the support group who are held in SERDEQUIM. The conversations in the meetings occurred through simple language and easy to understand, using images and reflections. Thus were constructed educational interventions on environmental issues and their reflexivity in health. Environmental education is a tool that can contribute to the process of preserving the environment with improved quality of life and should be developed with all groups of society. In this sense, the support group for users of alcohol and other drugs in (SERDEQUIM) of HUSM constitute an important space to develop nursing education activities.