Prevention and pandemic

Today I am going to have a glass of wine because the work was super stressful, the deadlines, the economic difficulty of this pandemic moment, there is a huge pressure on my work!

Today I'm going to have a can of beer here because it's the weekend, and we're in a pandemic right?

I made a wonderful dinner that goes very well with liquor;

I have smoked more than usual, staying at home during work makes it possible to go to smoke on the balcony during breaks.

I need this wine at the end of the night, it's the kids, it's my husband at the home office! Before I worked 3 shifts now it seems like 5! I can't sleep without the wine anymore. These are some speeches that we heard in the patient's office during quarantine.

In addiction we often say that it is common for patients to seek justifications for making use of the substance of abuse. Today because we are happy, tomorrow, because we are sad. Today we use it to celebrate, tomorrow, because the day was difficult and we need to forget. As if the experience was always different and dissociated from the previous one, even though there is always a common denominator - the use of the substance. Recently, PAHO (Pan American Health Organization) launched a survey talking about the increase in the consumption of alcohol and other drugs during the pandemic. ABEAD (Brazilian Association of Alcohol and other Drugs) has launched articles on the subject. However, of the patients I mentioned above, none of them are drug addicts, or at least they were not ...

For this reason we launched an alert and we propose to talk on the 22nd about the increase in drug use, abuse of prescription drugs and alcohol consumption in times of pandemic. We understand that we are facing a new challenge, the challenge of prevention. To work so that, in addition to new cases of covid-19, we will not see the list of related diseases grow, allowing chemical dependence to be part of this as a new “social phenomenon”. Text by psychologist Mariane Radke (CRP. 07/25125) from the CEFI Integration Center - specialized treatment for chemical dependence