Mapping of the scientific production about alcoholism between 1986 and 2006, focusing on Psychiatry and Public Health. Bibliographic sources: books, magazines, scientific magazines, Dissertations, Thesis and publications of the Centro Brasileiro de Informações sobre Drogas Psicotrópicas (CEBRID) Brazilian Center of Informations about Psychotropic Drugs. The word "alcoholism" has been used for consultation, by Internet, on the data base of CEBRID and the Virtual Library on Health. A research was made as well on the libraries of the Psychiatric Institute, of the Pharmacy College and the Nursing College Anna Nery, units of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Sixty-two publications about the subject were identified but only fourteen were used. The rest was excluded because it was not related to the subject on these domains. Nine publications focused on Public Health, three on Psychiatrics and two on both domains. The authors concluded that the production was incipient; the nurses have to search for new knowledge about the alcoholism to offer an efficient assistance to these specific clients.
Alcoholism; Nursing; Public Health; Psychiatrics
