Abstract
This essay proposes a crossover between the National Mental Health Law (26.657) and hospitalizations in therapeutic communities, trying to account for the scope that this law had on these institutions in the analyzed period (2011-2015).
This analysis is carried out in two stages: initially from the description of the hospitalizations in therapeutic communities, its problematic drug use conceptualization and many Law 26.657 relevant scoring aspects to the subject. Then, through interviews with people who have been hospitalizated in therapeutic community, these aspects are explored by appealing to a first-person account of the experience.
Qualitative methodology, semi-structured individual interviews and a subsequent analysis supported by the discursive constructions of the interviewees were used.