| Summary: | This article will outline a process of research-intervention carried out over a year in a Psychosocial Care Center forAlcohol and Drugs (CAPSad). This research took place on practices based on concepts that involve the InstitutionalAnalysis, thus advocating a job analysis of the complex network of knowledge and power relations present in suchservice, as well as of the institutional dynamics which causes productive or instituting forces to circulate there, inaddition to forces which tend to perpetuate themselves to what is established. We have used the method ofresearch-intervention, for it is a method of research which dissociates the act of researching from the act ofintervening, causing the route of this research to be traced in the processuality and complexity of the eventsinvestigated. In this investigative-intervening process, the clinic of the Damage Reduction became an issue, for it isa guideline for the public policies in this area.This article will outline a process of research-intervention carried out over a year in a Psychosocial Care Center forAlcohol and Drugs (CAPSad). This research took place on practices based on concepts that involve the InstitutionalAnalysis, thus advocating a job analysis of the complex network of knowledge and power relations present in suchservice, as well as of the institutional dynamics which causes productive or instituting forces to circulate there, inaddition to forces which tend to perpetuate themselves to what is established. We have used the method ofresearch-intervention, for it is a method of research which dissociates the act of researching from the act ofintervening, causing the route of this research to be traced in the processuality and complexity of the eventsinvestigated. In this investigative-intervening process, the clinic of the Damage Reduction became an issue, for it isa guideline for the public policies in this area.
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