ABSTRACT
This article aims to analyze the perception of a health team regarding the circulation and consumption of drugs by women deprived of their liberty in a penitentiary. For the production of the empirical material an interview was conducted with the members of the health team and the observation of the daily work of such team. With the analytical exercise carried out it was possible to verify the existence of different statements regarding the circulation and consumption of drugs in the institution. It can still be affirmed that the different positions of combat, tolerance or incentive to the use of these substances derives, among other factors, from the legal status attributed to them: licit/illicit.
KEYWORDS
Patient care team; Women; Prisons; Street drugs; Qualitative research