Crianças e adolescentes e o uso abusivo de drogas: a clínica na intersetorialidade

Abstract

This text introduces the use of a resource for clinical interventions in the field of Psychosocial Attention with children and adolescent drug users based on initiatives developed by ERIJAD (Equipe de Referência Infanto-Juvenil para ações de atenção ao uso de Álcool e outras Drogas) in the city of Niteroi, in Rio de Janeiro state. ERIJAD was formed as an intersectorial team (intersectorial measure No. 1 of Dec. 11, 2008) and puts forth strategies of shared care with institutions of the intersectorial network responsible for this group of people. These strategies allowed us to verify a change in understanding about the treatment of these subjects by institutions within the network in which hospitalization for drug abuse is no longer a required central strategy for helping to devise alternative actions. The concepts, from Freud and Lacan, have been used to undertake a reading of the work developed and, in doing so, formulate a theory for this practice. Through some clinical cases fragments present demonstrate the clinical effects as well as the politics of interventions and affirming that the clinical dimension put forth in Psychosocial Attention is intrinsically linked to the political dimension, what we have decided to call the clinical-political dimension.