Abstract
This study aimed to analyse the challenges that families face while caring adolescent crack users. Qualitative research, which conducts in-depth interviews with five teenagers and four relatives linked to the Psychosocial Care Centre. The research was based on content analysis, and the results show that the challenges are related to family conflicts, to the breaking of family ties, as well as with the difficulties in reconciling the teenager attendance to the treatment with his work and in the monitoring of his behaviour. For these families, the solution is based on the institutionalization of the adolescents in asylums environments features.
Keywords:
family relations; adolescents; substance-related disorders; health services