CAPS AD III : entre a cor cinza da técnico-burocracia e as cores vibrantes que articulam clínica e política

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the propitious relation between the Integral Care to Users of Alcohol and other Drugs Policy (ICUADP) of Health Ministry and CAPS AD Primavera (Primavera Psycho-social Assistance Center to Alcohol and other Drugs), Aracaju SE. The publication of this policy, in 2003, brought to the machine of Government a whole body of political, social, and economic ideas and new vocabulary, which endowed this policy with intense founding strength, arousing our interest in thinking how it is implemented inside this, CAPS. The research issue was engendered and analyzed taking into consideration four methodological tools: cartography, genealogy, documentary research and daily journal. The everyday routine of a service like this one is permeated by the coexistence and permanent tension of forces; so that the research developed throughout this study sought to observe some lines of force that are part of this service and go through it, thus aiming to point out practices which articulate to the sanitary medical knowledge/power, updating the bio-political mechanisms of population control, and the practices which escape from this capture, producing other forms of dealing with alcohol and other drugs use and users. In general, our findings indicate that by producing verticalizing practices of relationship, the CAPS AD Primavera bureaucratizes its internal flow and care and functions in an enCAPSulated way; it limits the principles and policy of the ICUADP and updates sanitary medical knowledge power strategies. In an opposite direction, when the practice in this service emphasizes the horizontalization of the relationships, the opening to the territory and the articulation of clinic and policy, the principles and policy of the ICUADP are strengthened and the production of individuals´ and communities´ autonomy is empowered.