Patients in the process of recovery from psychoactive substance use and family support

Abstract

From a psychological perspective, family support is a key element, both positive and negative, in the recovery process for psychoactive substance use; as a risk factor to induce consumption when it has been naturalized in the family, as well as to promote quality recovery. The objective of the research was to characterize the family support of patients in the process of recovery from psychoactive substance consumption.
In this sense, the design of this research was non-experimental, it had a transversal descriptive scope, using a quantitative approach, the methods used were synthetic analysis, bibliographic review and descriptive statistics; For the implementation,
the family support scale was used, which was applied to 30 patients from the male therapeutic community “La Puerta de Al Ghani”. The results showed that 53% of patients who consume psychoactive substances have their family, however, 27% of
them do not always have this support. Thus, family support is a decisive factor in the recovery of patients from psychoactive substance use.