Cura e fé: um estudo de caso na comunidade Acafe no município de Santana - AP

Abstract

The article discusses the action of ACAFE therapeutic community in the (re) education of drug addicts, faith healing from three areas: a) the theological axis - through spirituality recovery; b) the coercive axis - through the norms and rules of the Bylaws; c) the language - by building a new framework. Considering that these elements act as part of a process that seeks to create conditions of autonomy, developing for the consumer of psychoactive substances control of your will. The possibility of abandoning the use / abuse involves the following situations: a) Partial use, controlled use or over-use and total abstinence. The method used in this study is the descriptive history. The research used as theoretical studies of the authors Emile Durkheim when comes to Social Anomie, Erving Goffman to address the concept of Total Institution and how this applies in the Therapeutic Community and De Leon, among other researchers. It proposes reflections to develop actions aimed at understanding and possible solution to the social phenomenon.