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I NTERI NSTI TUTI ONAL PARTNERSHI PS: THE I NVESTMENT I N THE CONSTRUCTI ON OF
MULTI CEN TER PROJECTS ON LEGAL AN D I LLEGAL DRUGS
I sabel Am élia Cost a Mendes1
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his volum e j oins t he cont ribut ions of nursing facult y from Lat in Am erican higher educat ion inst it ut ions w ho, w it h t he suppor t of CI CAD, spent a per iod in Canada, specifically at t he Univer sit y of Alber t a- Facult y of Nursing, t o receive t raining for research on legal and illegal drugs, as well as t o find part nerships am ong t hem and w it h professionals from t hat inst it ut ion, w it h a view t o t he developm ent of j oint proj ect s.The Univer sit y of Alber t a Facult y of Nur sing par t icipat ed in t he CI CAD/ OAS Pr oj ect of Nur sing Schools as a collabor at ing inst it ut ion and r eceiv ed, in 2003, elev en Lat in Am er ican r esear cher s for t he I I nt er nat ional Resear ch-Training Pr ogram for Nur ses t o St udy t he Dr ugs Phenom enon. As a cent er of excellence in r esear ch, t he Univ er sit y of Alber t a Facult y of Nur sing r eceiv ed facult y fr om Nur sing Schools in Brazil, Ar gent ina, Chile, Ecuador, Mex ico and Per u for an innovat ive t hr ee- m ont h pr ogram t hat focused on t he dev elopm ent of nur sing r esear ch er s an d leader s.
The art icles t hat result ed from t his init iat ive evidence, t o different ext ent s, advances in t hese part nerships and reveal w om en as t he priorit y subj ect of research. This priorit y is based on dem ographic dat a produced by global( 1) and local( 2) st udies, w hich indicat e w om en, childr en and adolescent s as v ulner able populat ion gr oups and subj ect t o abuse or ex posed t o pauper ism .
I n Br azil, st udies( 2- 7) show t hat fam ilies headed by w om en ar e incr easing and t hat , w it h childr en and w it hout ot her adult s except for t he m ot her, range bet w een ex t r em ely poor and ver y poor.
On t he ot her hand, dom est ic violence ( which includes fam ily violence) frequent ly seem s t o be associat ed w it h t he excessive use of alcoholic drinks. A Brazilian st udy( 8) show ed a 52.7% associat ion, w hich is sim ilar t o
global est im at es about t his issue ( 1,9).
Due t o being a legal drug t hat is st im ulat ed by publicit y and cult ural t radit ions, alcohol benefit s from a social perm issiveness t hat illegal drugs do not possess. Precisely due t o t he fact t hat it s consum pt ion is highly popular am ong differ ent social lay er s and populat ion gr oups, it pr ev ails in alm ost all sit uat ions t hat inv olv e v iolence, ex cept in r obber ies, w hen cocaine is m or e fr equent ( 8- 9).
How ever, t he r elat ion bet w een v iolence and psychoact ive subst ance abuse should be faced pr udent ly, given t hat various violent sit uat ions do not display any associat ion w hat soever w it h t hese subst ances. I n spit e of it s frequency, t his associat ion should not be seen as a cause- effect relat ion ( 10- 11).
The ar t icles ev idence w om en’s pr eoccupat ion w it h t heir childr en, confir m ing t heir posit ion as bear er s of t he great est responsibilit y for t heir children, which t hey assum e direct ly or indirect ly, due t o cult ural st andards and values, due t o t he social cont ex t and hist or y, w hich has consolidat ed w om en as t he m ain car egiv er s t o f am ily m em b er s.
This issue offer s t he oppor t unit y t o ev aluat e t hese inv est m ent s in t er m s of int er inst it ut ional polit ical negot iat ions on financial and logist ic suppor t , hum an r esour ces and ot her inv est m ent s needed t o accom plish int er inst it ut ional par t ner ships, dem onst r at ing t hat t he r esult paid off, as it pr oduced possibilit ies t o t ight en t he bonds init iat ed t hr ough t his pr ocess.
Wor king in par t ner ship pr esupposes a gr eat challenge( 12), as bonds ar e const r uct ed and est ablished in a process t hat requires t im e for t he sides t o get t o know one anot her, t o t rust in each ot her ’s com pet ence and inv olv em ent , t o under st and and r espect t heir ow n r hy t hm , so t hat , in t he end, one side’s w or k com plem ent s t he ot her ’s. This is par t icular ly im por t ant in par t ner ships w hose m ain aim is r esear ch dev elopm ent .
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This issue evidences t he lack of nursing research on alcohol and ot her drugs in t he Brazilian realit y and also indicat es som e lit t le ex plor ed ar eas of t his t hem e.
I n t his sense, t he Lat in Am erican Journal of Nursing cont ribut es t o t wo subj ect s about which few st udies have been produced, publishing t wo art icles by non- nursing researchers, which discuss elderly and com orbidit y: psy chiat r ic disor der s and use of psy choact iv e subst ances.
Besid es t h e ab ov e m en t ion ed , t h e in clu sion of t h ese t ex t s con f ir m s t h e j ou r n al’s p osit ion as an int er nat ional and m ult idisciplinar y j our nal, in v iew of t he fact t hat som e t hem es ( such as t he phenom enon of psy chot r opic dr ugs use) , m or e t han ot her s, need t his appr oach.
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