Historias de vida e influencia familiar en las personas en situación de consumo de sustancias psicoactivas en un centro de salud integral.

Abstract

The present work is a study on "Stories of life and family influence in people in situation of psychoactive substance consumption in a comprehensive health center". The search for personal, family and external factors that have been influential for adults has been influenced in the use and abuse of drugs, in the same way emphasis was placed on aspects that have been influential for some patients have relapsed again, this research was carried out in a comprehensive health center in the city of Guayaquil. The work of qualitative type was developed in a descriptive and comprehensive level, with a sample of 6 young adult patients, within a recovery treatment program of residential or hospital type, the information was collected through the application of interviews in depth during three sessions for each patient, the execution of a discussion group and home visits to relatives in order to find key aspects of the investigation. Among the main findings was found that the influence has not only been determined by conflicting family situations, also one aspect has been the tendency to experiment, to want to know what it feels to be under the effects of psychoactive and also the conceptions that were handled before of knowing the drugs, in addition to discovering how patients get to access the support they have had to enter a process of integral recovery.