Abstract
This study sought to describe the involvement of crack addicts in treatment in therapeutic communities with violence and crime and to identify associated factors. We interviewed 72 individuals, over 18 years old, who were treated in therapeutic communities of a midsize city of Minas Gerais. We used the instruments: Addiction Severity Index version 6 (ASI 6), The Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) and a sociodemographic questionnaire. The results showed that most of them had a history of arrests and had recently been involved with violence and illegal activities such as robbery, theft, drug trafficking and aggression. Poisson regression analysis showed that the higher level of education appears as protection, while employment and psychiatric problems, and prison in adolescence were associated with crimes in the past six months. An occupational and educational reinsertion program during treatment and after discharge of CTs could be a protective approach to crimes.
Keywords:
crime; violence; crack; therapeutic community