The Unidad Renacimiento community mental health and addictions center in Acapulco (2021-2024)

Abstract

The central objective of this research article is to describe and explain the impact of the activities of the Community Center for Mental Health and Addictions Unidad Renacimiento in the City of Acapulco de Juárez, on the mental health of the community affected by the issue of addiction. mental health and addictions, during the period 2021-2024, which is part of the public health policies aimed at caring for the population in conditions of substance addiction. From the theoretical approach of social citizenship and liquid modernity, it is hypothesized that public policies aimed at combating addictions with illegal substances in Mexico, when thought, organized and implemented in neoliberal simulation logic from high bureaucracies, do not address efficiently the problem, violating the right to health of citizens affected by this public health problem. This means that the care centers in the field operate from a diametrically different logic, supplying care to the affected population with extra work, imagination and from a human rights approach, generating a recomposition of the social fabric of the community. The methodology used to collect the information that supports this research was qualitative and quantitative. The qualitative research techniques that were applied were ethnography and semi-structured interviews aimed at the staff that make up these community centers, the quantitative technique applied was surveys, the sample was theoretical and the research period covers the years 2021-2024.