Horta Rogério Lessa, Horta Bernardo Lessa, Rosset Adriana Palma, Horta Cristina Lessa
Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Rua Jary 671, São Leopoldo, Brazil.
Cad Saude Publica. 2011 Nov;27(11):2263-70. doi: 10.1590/s0102-311x2011001100019.
This paper describes the profile of 95 crack cocaine users attending three community mental health services (CAPS) in Greater Metropolitan Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil, from August 2009 to March 2010. The instruments employed were questionnaires developed by the team, the Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20), and inventories of criteria for dependence and abuse (SAMHSA). The data depict a group of users consisting predominantly of young males with elementary schooling, without regular employment but reporting individual income, none of whom living on the streets. They were currently addicted, with heavy daily use of crack for more than two years, and with high SRQ-20 score. This group's characteristics showed that the community mental health services are attended by crack users that suffer losses resulting from their addiction, but also some possible selection process in the supply of these health services (based mainly income, schooling, or primary support network).
本文描述了2009年8月至2010年3月期间，在巴西南里奥格兰德州阿雷格里港大都市区的三个社区精神卫生服务机构（CAPS）接受治疗的95名快克可卡因使用者的概况。所使用的工具包括该团队编制的问卷、自填式问卷调查表（SRQ-20）以及依赖和滥用标准量表（SAMHSA）。数据显示，这组使用者主要是受过小学教育的年轻男性，没有固定工作，但有个人收入，且无人流落街头。他们目前成瘾，每天大量使用快克可卡因超过两年，且SRQ-20得分较高。该群体的特征表明，社区精神卫生服务机构接待的快克可卡因使用者既因成瘾而遭受损失，同时在这些卫生服务的提供方面也可能存在某种筛选过程（主要基于收入、教育程度或主要支持网络）。
