Educational Workshops To Stimulate The Sensory Perception Of Drug Users: An Experience Report

Objective: To discuss the therapeutic workshop as a strategy for the stimulation of the sense organs and to contextualize the problem of drug abuse. Methods: The activities were developed in a Psychosocial Attention Centers for alcohol and other drugs, located in the Northeast of Brazil. The therapeutic workshop was divided into six sessions that took place weekly in the service auditorium, outside pool area, occupational therapy room, group room or cafeteria, lasting one hour, and a sense organ was worked out for a meeting. Results: Five sessions were aimed at the organs of the senses where the sight, smell, touch, hearing and taste were worked out. Initially each session was explained to the users and they entered the environments to be performed. The sixth session consisted of listening to the entire educational workshops to stimulate the sensory perception, where participants reported emotions and feelings experienced during sessions, such as: fear, anxiety, fissure, refusal, pleasure and displeasure. Conclusion: The participants presented a sensory blunting, relating the experienced stimulus to the consumption of psychoactive substances, demonstrating a strong equivalence between the proposed activity and substance dependence. This activity made possible an interdisciplinary action, through the exchange of knowledge and interventions.