O Serviço Social ante a restrição de Direitos dos usuários de Álcool e outras drogas no Brasil

Abstract

This monograph aimed to address the role of Social Work in Mental Health, as well as to analyze the importance of this profession in the face of the restriction of the rights of users of alcohol and other drugs in Brazil, which violates the basic rights of such citizens, as well as explaining about the historical evolution of Social Work in the field of Mental Health, how to identify the reflexes of the restriction of rights to chemical dependents in our country, whose loss of citizenship is evidenced through the deprivation of liberty, either through involuntary hospitalization - for supposedly therapeutic treatment - , or by the expressive increase in the Brazilian prison mass, which, for the most part, is composed of black and brown people and users of psychoactive substances. We carried out bibliographic research on the subject, in order to discover a better way of caring for drug addicts. Finally, an analysis was carried out on the marginalization of drug addicts, caused by the war on drugs, from which we came to the conclusion that such war generates the strengthening of the stigma to drug users, their social exclusion and the stability of neoliberalism and the dismantling policy in our country.