El anclaje territorial en los abordajes religiosos para el consumo de drogas en Buenos Aires, Argentina

Abstract

En este trabajo analizamos las vinculaciones entre las significaciones que directivos y referentes de instituciones religiosas de tratamiento de drogas realizan sobre las causas del consumo, y las modalidades de abordaje que, en virtud de dichas concepciones, consideran más adecuadas (internación en comunidades terapéuticas alejadas de grandes centros urbanos, o centros barriales localizados en ?o cercanos a? territorios vulnerabilizados). Para ello, desarrollamos una estrategia metodológica cualitativa, basada en la realización y análisis de entrevistas a directivos de 25 instituciones de orientación religiosa localizadas en el Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires.

In this paper we analyse the links between the conceptions that leaders of religious substance abuse treatment centres have about motivations for drug abuse, and the modality of treatment and territorial insertions that they propose according to those conceptions. While some leaders consider the therapeutic community located well away from central urban areas as the most appropriate modality, others believe that treatment centres should be situated in –or nearby– vulnerable neighbourhoods. We thus developed a qualitative methodological strategy based on interviews with leaders of 25 institutions located in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The interviews were codified with the support of the Atlas. ti 7® software. We then identified emerging categories by means of an inductive analysis and thematically analysed the empirical evidence.