Spirituality workshops: alternative care for the comprehensive treatment of drug addicts

This is an experience report regarding crack users following detoxification treatment, which aimed to achieve a comprehensive treatment of human beings through spirituality workshops. Cultivated and created from the inspirations of the subjects themselves, the workshops are strategies capable of encouraging a revision of attitudes and behaviors, as well as to resume life based on new values and ideals. In abstract, the workshops aim to contribute towards broadening discussions on the theme, thus supporting the revision of nursing practice in regards to detoxification treatment, in addition to highlighting the need to conduct further studies in this field.

Drug users; Spirituality; Meditation; Nursing care; Mental health