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Psicología, Conocimiento y Sociedad

versión On-line ISSN 1688-7026

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MORTEO, Andrea. The use of psychoactive drugs in adolescents’ residential shelters in Montevideo. Psicol. Conoc. Soc. [online]. 2018, vol.8, n.2, pp.84-97. ISSN 1688-7026.  https://doi.org/10.26864/pcs.v8.n2.7.

This article studies the phenomenon of prescription and consumption of psychotropic drugs in adolescent residential shelters in Montevideo. It is assumed that the residential shelter includes the psychiatric device as part of its naturalized intervention strategy. A cartographic methodology is used (Passos et al., 2009), with a mixed design.

On the one hand, the daily situations of the shelters that demand psychiatric care are analyzed and the implementation of their treatment is problematized. On the other hand, there is a debate about the construction of the subjectivity of young people who live their adolescence in these institutional devices. The adolescent subjectivities here are understood governmentality, as a product of the meeting between the residential shelter device and the psychiatric one (Foucault, 2002, 2011). Psychopharmaceutical is, in this section, understood as a techno-politics that in its systematic use, becomes a body and, as it becomes inseparable, becomes subjectivity (Preciado, 2013).

As a result, 46.6% of adolescents had psychopharmaceuticals prescribed at the time of the investigation; exceeding the global and local level surveyed. The statements of prevention and protection of adolescents that support this intervention, make invisible a system that offers the use of psychopharmaceutical from the beginning of the institutionalization process. Likewise, some institutional dimensions enunciate that their treatments are being cronify, calling into question the exclusive attribution of the intervention on mental health as a single situation of an adolescent.

Palabras clave : Residential shelter; Psychotropic drug; Subjectivity; Device.

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