Author:

• ELIZABETH ESPINDOLA HALPERN - Halpern, E.E. - RIO DE JANEIRO, RIO DE JANEIRO - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Psiquiatria - <espindolahalpern@yahoo.com.br>

Co-author(s):

• Ligia Costa Leite - Leite, L.C. - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Psiquiatria - <ligia.cleite@gmail.com>

Thematic Area:

Avaliação de Serviços de Saúde

Abstract:

A pioneering study conducted at the Center for Chemical Dependency (CEDEQ) of the Brazilian Navy (MB) through an ethnographic study, with participant observation, investigated the influence of MB in the construction of patients’ alcoholism. This article presents one of the search results, the double commitment of this Outpatient Clinic, with the patients and the institution. The results encompass topics such as the organization and functioning of CEDEQ, therapeutic contract, anonymity and confidentiality, discharge, relapses, readmission and abandonments, secondary gains, \"scams\" and sanctions in addition to the ambiguous perceptions about treatment. In sum, these findings clarify a bit more about the institutional intricacies that contribute to the constitution of many of patients’ alcoholism.

Keywords:

Qualitative researchResearcher-subject relationsAlcoholism

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