A experiência religiosa na superação do uso de droga

Abstract

Religious experience is presented by several researchers as a process of overcoming suffering, disease, disuse drug and other hardships factor. This research had as its central objective to understand the relationship of religious experience with overcoming drug withdrawal, according to users graduates from an institution of care (care) to drug addicts in the city of Manaus. From this, we constructed two articles, the first aimed at understanding how people who used drugs began to conceive of their relationship with the substance in focus and what were the effects of that use on their systems of belonging. The second article was to understand how religious experience is located in the path of a group of people who have overcome drug use after the passage of these for a therapeutic community and the repercussions of this disuse in their systems of belonging. Survey participants were inmates of a therapeutic community (Fazenda da Esperança, Manaus-AM) that were in disrepair for at least one year at the time of the survey. Method was used as a qualitative exploratory approach, adopting categories of systems theory to the analysis of the data, these collected through semi-structured interviews. The results point to the fact that the use and disuse of drugs and suffering related to them are tied to the user, systems and subsystems of belonging, especially to family, work, relationship with peers and religious experience ; Addiction and a ratio of responsibility that positively or negatively feeds back the ratio of use over time. Religious experience is identified as psychosocial process of organizing an identity which integrates sense of transcendence, and shall support new modes of relatedness between individuals and their social networks, in particular the family, community and religious institutions belonging. Recursion and the unpredictability present in the trajectories of use and disuse were also identified as factors that pushed the system to search for homeostasis and thus to overcome.