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Attendance of children and adolescents with psychoactive substance use disorders performed by Psychosocial Care Centers in Brazil, 2008-2012* * Manuscript originated from the Master's Thesis of Déborah Santos Conceição, entitled 'National profile of use of Psychosocial Care Centers for children and adolescents with psychoactive substance use disorders Brazil, 2008 to 2012', defended to the Postgraduate Program in Collective Health of Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) in 2016.

Abstract

Objective:

to describe the profile of care for children and adolescents withpsychoactive substance use disorders performed by the Brazilian Psychosocial Care Centers (Centros de Atenção Psicossocial - CAPS) from 2008 to 2012.

Methods:

a descriptive study with data from the SUS Outpatient Information System (Sistema de Informações Ambulatoriais do Sistema Único de Saúde - SIA/SUS) and the system of National Registration of Health Establishments (Cadastro Nacional de Estabelecimentos de Saúde - CNES).

Results:

a total of 151.330 attendances were observed, 81.2% were males and 99.2% were in the age range of 10 to 19 years; the main causes were polydrug use (56.7%), cocaine (15.6%), marijuana (15.6%) and alcohol (9.0%); the CAPS for Alcohol and other Drugs (CAPS AD) accounted for 81.8% of the records; from 2008 to 2012, the attendance rate from 39.6 to 76.7/100 thousand inhabitants.

Conclusion:

there was an increase in the attendance rates, observing the predominance of males, age range of 10 to 19 years and disorders due to polydrug use.

Keywords:
Child; Adolescents; Substance-Related Disorders; Mental Health Services

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