Conselho municipal de políticas sobre drogas de Santarém do Pará, Amazônia, Brasil: reflexões do serviço social.

Abstract

Thematic Municipal Councils are ideal and fruitful spaces for treatment and actions corresponding to the emerging social issues of a society at the regional level. The theme of drugs is gaining significant space in the national and international debate every day, leading Santarém, in Pará, to sanction Law No. 20,145/2016, which creates the Municipal Council for Drug Policies. Thus, this research aimed to analyze the role played by the Municipal Council of Drug Policies in Santarém, making use of the reflections of Social Work related to this type of social control follow-up. The research is characterized as exploratory and descriptive, with a qualitative-quantitative approach and a method anchored in the philosophical foundations of Marxist historical-dialectical materialism. Thus, a bibliographic survey was carried out, data collection in the field through the application of 12 questionnaires, being made available to participants in physical or virtual form (using the Google Forms tool). The data investigation was carried out through Bardin's (2002) content analysis, using a relational and critical triangulation system, with 49 units of analysis, distributed by the thematic axes: Participant Profile, Municipal Council, Training and Relationship between Social Work and Municipal Council. The participants of the research are Municipal Councilors of the CMDP and Social Workers Councilors of other Municipal Councils. With the results of this research, it was possible to observe that there is a relationship between Social Work and the CMDP, with the profession having specific instruments of action that can assist in the conduct of the actions carried out by the Council, which are directly linked to 9 of the 11 fundamental professional principles that dialogue with the uncompromising Defense of Human Rights and Social Justice.