Culture of use crack pipe in consumption and its impact on user's health

• Grant number: 12/19316-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: January 01, 2013
• End date: December 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Collective Health - Public Health
• Principal Investigator: Solange Aparecida Nappo
• Grantee: Valeska Tscherne e Pastrelo
• Host Institution: Escola Paulista de Medicina (EPM). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus São Paulo. São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

In the culture of crack use, the pipe has an important role to be within the culture. Besides contributing to the smoking of the drug, is used as a means of dividing the crack with another partner using it for unusual forms of risk (shotgun). Considering the physical damage to the pipe on the user, this approach among consumers can be an important factor for transmitting Hepatitis C, Tuberculosis, etc. This work has as main objective to identify the culture of using pipe risk situations to which the user is exposed.(AU)