MUNICIPAL COUNCIL FOR DRUG POLICIES IN WEST PARÁ: REFLECTIONS FROM SOCIAL SERVICE
Municipal Council. Drugs. Social Service.
Thematic Municipal Councils are ideal and fruitful spaces for treatment and actions corresponding to the emerging social issues of a society at the regional level. The theme of drugs is gaining significant space in the national and international debate every day, leading Santarém, in Pará, to sanction Law No. 20,145/2016, which creates the Municipal Council for Drug Policies. Thus, this research aims to analyze the role played by the Municipal Council of Drug Policies in Santarém, making use of the reflections of Social Work related to this type of social control follow-up. The research is characterized by descriptive exploratory, with a qualitative-quantitative approach and a method anchored in the philosophical foundations of Marxist historical-dialectical materialism. Thus, a bibliographic survey was carried out, data collection in the field through the application of 12 questionnaires, being made available to participants in physical or virtual form (using the Google Forms tool). The investigation of the data was carried out through the content analysis of Bardan (2002), making use of a relational and critical system of triangulation, with 49 units of analysis, distributed by the thematic axes: Participant Profile, Municipal Council, Training and Relationship between Social Service and Municipal Council. The participants of the research are Municipal Councilors of the CMDP and Social Workers Councilors of other Municipal Councils. With the results of this research, it is intended to collaborate with a bibliographic support material available for consultation and assistance to the decisions of the public power in the implementation of public policies, as well as with it it is expected to highlight the importance of the implementation of a CMPD in other municipalities in the Amazon region, in addition to hoping that it can be a propelling instrument to strengthen the category of Social Workers in the Amazon, motivating them to get involved with the thematic Municipal Councils of the region.'