Religião, procedimentos disciplinares e terapêuticos no tratamento de dependentes químicos na Casa de Recuperação Cristo Liberta, Igarassu, PE

Abstract

With the problem of drugs in Brazil, whether legal or illegal, one can see the increase in consumption and dependence, which has become one of the biggest scourges of modern society, affecting thousands of people. In this context the Therapeutic Communities appear as an important treatment option for chemical dependents. And there is a wide presence of religious institutions that have the Therapeutic Communities as a proposal of care, reception and treatment of drug addiction, having as main forms of action, rehabilitation, evangelism and religious conversion. The Confessional Therapeutic Communities conceive a model of treatment centered on abstinence, reading, prayer and discipline. The present work has as general objective, the observation of the therapeutic and disciplinary procedures of the House of Recovery Christ Liberta, a Therapeutic Community of religious character, in the locality of Cuieiras, rural zone of the municipality of Igarassu, and that concentrates its activities in the service to users , especially of illicit drugs, with the identification of these procedures, verifying the influence of Pentecostalism in this treatment and drawing a socioeconomic profile of the students of the House. The data presented here were collected between August and December 2018, being used to achieve the objective of this work, field research in loco, observation not participant, semi structured interviews and bibliographic survey. The themes of drugs and their developments were explored with a description of the Therapeutic Communities, the laws and decrees that regulate them, as well as an approach to Religion emphasizing Pentecostalism, with a brief history of its origins and its progress in view of a relevant branch of Protestantism; besides the concepts of sacred, profane and sects, which converge around the religious practices of the House. As theorists were chosen Robert King Merton and his concept of "manifest and latent functions," "The role performance theory"; the concept of "Religion" by Max Weber, Émile Durkheim, Rubem Alves, and the concepts of "Discipline" and "Power" by Michel Foucault and Peter Berger, as data analysis and interpretation tools of the research object. And despite the controversies surrounding what would be the ideal type of treatment, the relevance of the role played by the Casa de Recuperação Cristo Liberta was identified, helping the public power to solve a serious social problem such as chemical dependence and its effects, with results that were the inspiration for this work