EDITORIAL
The nursing and the problem of use and abuse of alcohol and other drugs
Angela Maria Mendes Abreu
The drugs phenomenon constitutes nowadays a true and urgent question of public health in the world. It is treated as a social problem with direct impact in the health of the individual, family, community and society in general.
It must be comprehended in its national and international dimension with its impact in the global sphere. It involves the problem of the production, traffic and business, as such as the consumption of licit and illicit drugs in the Americas and in the World.
The originated problems with the drugs are eminently complex and dynamical. Thus, it is taking as presuppose that the complexes relations that involves the use and abuse of licit and illicit drugs constitute scenery of vulnerability to the violence. Therefore, it configured as a one of the most complex and challenger problem faced by the government of the developed countries and mainly of the countries in development process in the world.
Alcohol and drugs it is a subject that directly or indirectly is about every one of us. This theme allows point of views under several perspectives. We may appreciate it as citizens of a nation, members of a family, health professionals, as researchers and teachers, as well as participants of a community. For each one of them it is justified a full and indispensable engagement. To dedicates itself to this theme it is a task of unquestionable importance, because it requires responsibility, training and, above all, scientific knowledge.
The excessive and more and more early consumption of alcohol and drugs it is a situation that preoccupy not only the Brazil, as also different countries of the world. The search of strategies to face this question, as much by the public power as by the society, it has been pointed towards a common direction, the one of to center efforts in the sense to give to the theme a realistic, pragmatic treatment and that promotes effectives results.
It is necessary to center efforts to intensify the relations with the society and the scientific community. In this sense, this theme has been treated properly in the Learning Programs and offered to the students, by the teaching staff of the Anna Nery School of Nursing, as a health component and as a social problem that affects our society and mostly the development of our Country.
For that I congratulate once more the Anna Nery School of Nursing, in the academic scope, doing its role, in the confrontation of this theme, so important nowadays. And, trough its Journal presents, in this special edition, the problems related to the use and abuse of alcohol and other drugs. It brings back to vogue and discuss several themes of scientific contribution, to spread the knowledge and the understanding of these studies, in this area, that today presents itself as one of the most relevant and important problem of public health in the world, the consumption of alcohol and other drugs.
Professora Adjunta e Chefe do Departamento de Enfermagem em Saúde Publica da EEAN/UFRJ. Coordenadora acadêmica do Núcleo de Atenção Integrada ao Acidentado de Transito/NAIAT/HESFA/UFRJ. Membro do Grupo Interdisciplinar de Estudos em alcoologia e Adictologia-GIAD/DESP/EEAN/UFRJ.
Publication Dates
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Publication in this collection
30 Nov 2009 -
Date of issue
Dec 2007
