Experience report presented by the professors of the field Promoting and Recovering the Mental Health of the Nursing College of the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (FENF/UERJ). We made a temporal cut from 2001 when the FENF/UERJ established a partnership with the Inter American Commission for the Abuse of Drugs Control (CICAD/OEA) until 2006. From this partnership it begins in the FENF/UERJ a process of evaluation of the content, schedule and adopted methodologies in the teaching about drugs. Since we already had work with subjects related to the treatment, we insert the preventive approach focusing the participative methodologies. It was concluded that there is a necessity of to form professionals to deal with the problem of the drugs as a strategy to amplify the acting and attention to the community.
Nursing; Mental Health; Street Drugs; Curriculum