Collaborative Strategies between Health Staff and Social Work to Promote Addiction Treatment and Patient Education

Abstract

Introduction: The soil of drug use addiction is paved with difficulties and sufferings, linked to diverse subjects and social context issues, steadily rising. The health and human services network has been experiencing many difficulties in reaching treatment demands in an effective and humanized way due to fragilities originating from public policies and past institutional divisions that cause vulnerabilities in confronting addiction problems. The scarcity and non-distribution of resources and services in the territory aggravate the transitive situations and, in a certain manner, make these services almost the only existing ones responsible for the accumulation of diverse demand axes, situated mainly in the areas of education, health, citizens' rights, and social inclusion.