O exercício profissional da/do assistente social no CAPS AD: análise da dependência química como expressão da questão social, relato teórico-prático

Abstract

This final paper is based on a theoretical-practical report about the professional practice of social workers within the Psychosocial Care Center for alcohol and drugs, facing the issue of chemical dependence as an expression of the social issue, object of interventional practice of these agents. As a need for debate, the issue of drug addiction in Brazil is a problem that has been growing more and more in the country, especially in large cities whose urban flow is intense. Expressions of the social issue such as: crime, violence, trafficking and homicides, in addition the consumption of psychoactive substances permeates all levels, social classes, genders, race and ethnicities. However, it is known that most individuals who are involved in this context are people who have some vulnerability, be it economic, physical, mental, social or family, and they find in the abusive use of these substances an escape from these impasses. In this view, the present work aims to analyze the work processes that the social worker performs in the face of the expression of the social question of drug addiction within the Psychosocial Care Center for Alcohol and Drugs (CAPS AD) and thus analyze what these vulnerabilities are from the cases attended through the experience of mandatory internship carried out at CAPS AD - Caminhos do Sol located in the county of Santa Maria - RS. The methodology used for the construction of the present study was through a literature review using the technique of interpretive analysis, found in texts, articles, books and legislation that address this theme, in order to understand how the work has been constituted with the social worker in these spaces. Finally, the debate about drug addiction as an expression of the social issue is of great importance for society and for the professional category, since social workers act by performing critical actions based on the social reality in which the individuals are inserted, thus taking into account the social inequalities in which they find themselves, among other splashes of expressions of the social issue, in addition to the importance of breaking common sense and the stigmas that are interspersed in the debate on chemical dependence.