It analyzes the influence of the therapeutic groups at Psychosocial Care Center among users with cocaine/crack dependence, Fortaleza - Ceará. Descriptive and retrospective study between 2009 and 2010. A bivariate analysis between the dependent and independent variables was performed. The therapeutic groups were influenced by the occupation, treatment abandonment, illegal drugs, number of visits to the doctors and prescriptions. It is observed the necessity to elaborate strategies in order to improve communitarian preventive actions, aiming to increase the cocaine/crack dependents adherence to the therapeutic activities, in accordance to the current mental health legislation.
Crack cocaine; Drug users; Mental health services