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Lifeworld: socio-environmental influence on crack cocaine use by teenagers
Marina Soares Mota1, Giovana Calcagno Gomes1, Juliane Portella Ribeiro1
1Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Nursing School. Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Objective:
To understand the influence of the lifeworld on crack cocaine use by teenagers undergoing treatment at the Psychosocial Care Center for users of alcohol and other drugs.
Method:
Qualitative research carried out with thirteen teenagers attended at the Psychosocial Care Center for users of alcohol and other drugs, from a municipality in the South of Brazil. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews and the Comprehensive Analysis was carried out from the Phenomenology of the Social World of Alfred Schütz.
Results:
In the lifeworld, there is influence of the community to which the teenager belongs; of the family, by the excess of permissibility and being in an environment of drug use and violence; and the school, where it is influenced by individuals to consume them.
Conclusion:
Elements from the lifeworld influence the teenager for the consumption of crack cocaine, being necessary actions contextualized with their world of life.
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