Barriers and Facilitators to Implement Preventive Practices to Drug Abuse

Abstract

In the Brazilian context, the Prevention Course to Drug Use for Public School Educators is developed. This study seeks to identify factors cited by the educators as favorable or unfavorable to the implementation of prevention projects. Data collection was carried out in three stages: in the first stage (T0), a sample consisted of 1494 course participants, in the second stage (T1), 2153 teachers participated and in the third stage (T2), 1017 educators answered the questions. Text mining techniques and content analyses were used. The results were categories proposed for the axes barriers and favorable aspects: training of school team, students and school community relationship and participation of the community and perceived dysfunctional family aspects, violence and drug trafficking, personal characteristics of adolescents and the school environment, respectively. The identification of these aspects is relevant to the development of prevention programs, allowing barriers to be anticipated and solutions to be proposed.

Harm reduction, evidence-based practices and prevention of drug use

“…Returning to the field of education, another initiative that aimed to integrate different sectors of the executive branch in a national action to prevent drug use was the "Drug Use Prevention Course for Public School Educators" (Ministry of Justice, 2014), which started from ethical perceptions about students as developing subjects with the potential to transform their realitiesincluding the relationship they establish with drug uses in their communities. This initiative was evaluated in the research of Monteiro, Gomide, Costa, Silveira and Ronzani (2018). This study found indications of an effective sensitization of the participants on the subject, demonstrated by the variation in the perception of the frequency of facilitators…”

Professional workshops for reinsertion of internal staff from a drug rehabilitation center in the labor market / Oficinas profissionalizantes para reinserção de internos de um centro terapêutico de toxicômanos no mercado de trabalho

“…The consumption of drugs of abuse has become a concern because of the high frequency of use and the social, economic and health damages related to illegal use and trade and trafficking. 1 In addition, the consumption of drugs of abuse entails high costs with justice, security, health and social assistance. In the past, drug use was directed to situations such as religious cults and integration events.…”