Uso/Abuso de psicotrópicos por mulheres encarceradas com problema de sono

Abstract

The prison system since the beginning was an unhealthy environment, people who broke the laws were penalized in different ways, with time the prison system underwent changes and improvements in its conjuncture, the environment mostly focused on the male public of decades ago, now gives there are women, who have special particularities, with this, these women enter the prison system, and suffer in addition to being in an unhealthy environment, are abandoned by their family members, and suffer physically and psychologically, making these women resort to the use of medications to meet your emotional needs. The study aims to identify the indiscriminate use / abuse of psychotropic drugs by women incarcerated for sleep control in the prison environment. This is a descriptive, exploratory study with a quantitative approach, carried out at the Santa Luzia Female Prison, in Alagoas, with 151 women in prison. For data collection, a structured form was used as an instrument. In this study it was evidenced that the majority of women deprived of liberty, are young, brown, with a low level of education, have used drugs at some time in their lives, and have problems related to sleep resulting from incarceration. The sleep pattern within the prison system is a problem for women, as they are unable to have a quality of sleep due to several factors, be they environmental, psychological, etc., so sleep ends up being a stress factor within the prison system. Women make use of psychotropic drugs indiscriminately, and that this abuse of psychotropic drugs is in reality a reflection of the context in which these women are inserted before being deprived of their freedom and these vulnerabilities are heightened within the prison environment.