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The interviews were analyzed through Thematic Analysis and revealed the existence of several structural factors impacting on the lives of the participants, namely, gender discrimination, poor schooling, socioeconomic marginalization and exclusion associated to insufficient and inadequate public policies. The action of more symbolic structural factors - for instance, their widespread beliefs on drug addiction as a result of free will - through its internalization by families, friends and by addicts themselves, became visible in interviewees\u2019 narratives, in which the rejection by close ones, as well as their own feelings of guilt, sadness and self-disapproval, are prominent features. As a conclusion, we call attention to the need for an integrated public policy in the educational, health and justice areas, and the implementation of awareness-raising actions aimed at the general public, in order to attenuate the impact of structural factors on the lives of current and potential drug addicts.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1590\/s0104-12902018170970","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,11,17]],"date-time":"2018-11-17T13:42:08Z","timestamp":1542462128000},"page":"820-833","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Economic and sociocultural poverty in drug abuse: from individual to sociopolitical responsibility"],"prefix":"10.1590","volume":"27","author":[{"given":"Ana Erika Oliveira","family":"Galv\u00e3o","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Universidade Estadual do Cear\u00e1,  Brazil"}]},{"given":"Lu\u00edsa","family":"Saavedra","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Universidade do Minho,  Portugal"}]},{"given":"Miguel","family":"Cameira","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Universidade do Porto,  Portugal"}]}],"member":"530","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,9]]},"reference":[{"issue":"1","key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"27","DOI":"10.3917\/ds.331.0027","article-title":"Requiem pour la guerre \u00e0 la drogue: l\u2019exp\u00e9rimentation portuguaise de d\u00e9criminalisation","volume":"33","author":"AGRA C.","year":"2009","journal-title":"D\u00e9viance et Soci\u00e9t\u00e9"},{"key":"ref2","series-title":"Manual diagn\u00f3stico e estat\u00edstico de transtornos mentais: DSM V","year":"2014"},{"key":"ref3","series-title":"Estat\u00edsticas APAV: relat\u00f3rio anual 2016","year":"2016"},{"issue":"2","key":"ref4","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"111","DOI":"10.3109\/16066359.2015.1075980","article-title":"Overcoming alcohol and other drug addiction as a process of social identity transition: the social identity model of recovery (SIMOR)","volume":"24","author":"BEST D.","year":"2016","journal-title":"Addiction Research and Theory"},{"issue":"2","key":"ref5","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"77","DOI":"10.1191\/1478088706qp063oa","article-title":"Using thematic analysis in psychology","volume":"3","author":"BRAUN V.","year":"2006","journal-title":"Qualitative Research in Psychology"},{"issue":"2","key":"ref6","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"139","DOI":"10.1177\/1468017308101818","article-title":"The public stigma of mental illness and drug addiction findings from a stratified random sample","volume":"9","author":"CORRIGAN P. 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