Jovens, familia e a droga: um estudo sobre a toxicodependência na cidade de Maputo

Abstract

With this work, we set out to understand the escalation process in the deviant conduct of drug addiction, taking as a case study the recovering drug addicts in REMAR. For this, we wanted to know your personal and social characteristics as well as those of your social belongings. Admitting, the presence of multiple factors in the triggering of deviant conduct, we wondered which, from a sociological point of view, had been the most decisive for the escalation of the individuals concerned in this conduct. Our assumption was that, in addition to the peculiarities of individuals, the influence of peer groups, etc. The crises in the family structure constituted a favorable situation for them to enter drug addiction. For operationalization, we carried out fieldwork in two Remar houses in the Costa do Sol neighborhood, where data collection was done, basically, through unstructured interviews, collection of life history and direct and free observation in the local. The results found show the existence of an essentially youthful population, with early entry and a prolonged stay in drug addiction. On the other hand, they confirm the interactive influence of several factors in the process of entering drug addiction, with a greater, relative weight, to be given to those from the family environment, in particular, the early separations between producers, disagreements and conflicts on a large scale, the precariousness of family relationships, etc. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)