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Screening and Brief Intervention for the use of alcohol and other drugs
Ângela Maria Mendes Abreu1, Rafael Tavares Jomar2, Gunnar Glauco de Cunto Taets3
1Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Anna Nery Nursing School. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Objective:
to identify the lifetime use of alcohol and other drugs among users of the Family Health Strategy and apply Brief Intervention to problems related to the use of these substances.
Method:
a descriptive cross-sectional study where 1,031 users of the Family Health Strategy of the city of Rio de Janeiro answered a form with socio-demographic information and the Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test. Statistical analysis with simple frequency distribution was performed.
Results:
the most commonly used drugs in lifetime were alcohol and tobacco; among the illegal drugs, marijuana, hypnotics and cocaine/crack stood out. Those who received most Brief Intervention were users of tobacco, hypnotics, marijuana, cocaine/crack and alcohol.
Conclusion:
it is important to detect early problems associated with the use of alcohol and other drugs in Primary Care, since it has the promotion/protection of health and the prevention of diseases as priority health practices.
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