Projeto Ítaca: estratégias educacionais para a abordagem da questão das drogas

Abstract

This Master‟s thesis has been produced in the Postgraduate Program in Education of Universidad Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil. It focuses on the themes of training, knowledge, and professional development. Its main objective is to explore educational strategies to address drugs issues, considering the notion of workshop as the basis of the work. The study shows some of the movements for regulation and prohibition of drugs, and how these subjects are part of different societies, in different periods. Moreover, it contextualizes Harm Reduction historically. From the analysis, it is highlighted the notion that agents who act for harm reduction have about the practice in Rio Grande do Sul State, in the South of Brazil. From this, we present the project Ítaca: harm reduction as a tool for intersectorial practices in health. It is developed in partnership with Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, with funds from the National Ministry of Health. Divided into two series, the project proposes the training of educators for harm reduction and, in a second moment, the action of these educators in a course offered to graduation students of courses such as Social Communication, Law, Education and those of the Health fields.