El estigma hacia los consumidores de heroína en el sistema de salud colombiano

Abstract

The consumption of psychoactive substances is a phenomenon that at national level has been guarantor of great stigmas and negative qualifications not only from society but public policy and the action of experts who treat problematic use or addictions to substances such as heroin have been controversial, because the same treatments have largely been linked to characters from the perception of the therapist or institution, these processes of stigmatization in health can greatly affect recovery processes often translated into self-stigmatization or even exacerbations of their condition as drug addicts. The purpose of the present investigation is to unveil the stigmas of the heroin dependency treating experts from different areas (therapeutic and strategic) and to estimate how these processes of stigmatization affect the treatment of the population described as heroin.