ANALYSIS OF THE USE OF PSYCHOTROPICS IN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF CAICÓ
Primary health care, mental health, psychotropic medications
Primary Care is the main gateway to the individual's health demands, and the most frequent cause of demand for care at this level of care, pointed out by some studies, are psychic complaints. Some other factors aggravate this scenario of exacerbated consumption: the patient's desire to use the medication to solve personal, family and/or economic problems, the doctor-patient relationship and the professional's attitude of not feeling comfortable in denying the drug prescription; difficulties in quick access to the specialist doctor and the counter-reference; excessive demand for consultations, which reverberates in insufficient time for the adoption of conducts such as counseling, guidance, care shared with other team members and/or introduction of weaning from the medication already in use. Such factors imply a significant and worrying increase in prescriptions of psychotropic drugs in Primary Health Care, given that in most cases, these drugs are prescribed without a definition of a therapeutic regimen that takes into account and/or reassess the condition. of the patient being temporary or permanent for the use of that drug.