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The experience of the toxicomania and reincidence through to toxicomaniacs' speech

This study had examined the toxicomania phenomenon and its reincidence from toxicomaniac's speech. This study has been performed in a specialized unit for chemical dependence treatment and troubles about alcohol ingestion and other drugs. The study is based on the clinical data from eleven subjects. The paper, performed within the theoretical psychoanalytical perspective was based on drug addiction accounts, whose preliminary interviews were embased on psychoanalysis' "urgency clinic's" parameters. The listening and reflection results indicated many psychological characteristics which are relevant for planning care strategies concerning about individualistic and collective problems. We distinguished two kinds of toxicomania related to the subjectivity types. The reincidence issue is a false dilemma and detoxification, along abstinence and also provoked by hospitalization is only a moment of drug deprivation that will be propably followed by a new period of drug use. Abstinence does not mean that the subjects have renounced to their drug willing. It is only an interruption correspondent to the low body tolerance in regard to the toxicomania mental fight , that follows the addicted person until death. The forced abstinence, as a public health policy and strategy, present in the toxicomania ordinary treatment , showed highly negative consequences , and need urgently to be revised. This study had tried to put the toxicomaniacs' unique experience into discussion as a intervention strategy for the these subjects' addiction itinerary concerning the moment they search for help.

psychoanalysis; recurrence; public health; toxicomania


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