In Brazil, a large survey carried out in the country’s 108 biggest cities [2] identified that 12.3% of people between 12 and 65
years of age were alcohol-dependent, and that 74.6% had already consumed alcohol in their life. As for the use of other
drugs, the same study appointed that 44% of the population had used tobacco, 8.8% cannabis, 6.1% solvents, 4.1%
appetite inhibitors, 2.9% cocaine and 0.7% crack cocaine, verifying a rapid increase in the use and misuse of legal and
illegal psychoactive drugs in Brazil in the last five years. This phenomenon has contributed to growing physical, psychic
and social problems, causing a rise in health care demands related to psychoactive substance use and misuse, mainly
alcohol. Hence, this has increased nurses’ contact with this population, a phenomenon that has demanded nursing skills to
deal with this problem