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This paper proposes to discuss the public fund and the projects that dispute the expenses, the funding and the directions of Brazil's mental health policy, with focus on the analysis of federal government's budget. It consists of a bibliographic and documental review that utilizes secondary data, obtained from official federal government websites and researches on the social security budget, analyzed with the critic dialectic method. It is observed that the public funding is tensed by distinct interests, and it is no different on the mental health policy. From 2001 and on, the financing of the community based psychosocial attention services is made broader and the SUS healthcare model is strengthened, based on the anti-asylum Psychiatric Reform. However, since 2005, interests from corporate, religious and medical entities groups, among others, have gained strength on the political agenda and on the dispute for the public fund, putting in risk the historical conquers of the mental health, alcohol, and other drug's policy in the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: The use of tobacco and alcohol consumption are present in various contexts and realities of society. Do not choose gender, age and so little social level, so that it becomes relevant the study of drug use during pregnancy, and the damage for pregnant, fetus and newborn. Aim: this paper aims to make a literature review on the damage that occurred during pregnancy, fetus and newborn due to the use of tobacco and alcohol. Method: A literature search was carried out. Results: As risk factors were identified unmarried women, adolescents, low education, low income and or unemployed, and often influenced by the environment and media. It could be perceived that women use tobacco to drugs and alcohol during pregnancy can harm the health of the fetus and newborn, increasing the risk of prematurity, birth defects, behavioral disorders, dysfunction in the Central Nervous System (CNS), down height/weight and miscarriage among. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the latest conclusions of an ongoing research on the use of psychoactive substances in the Portuguese Colonial War (1961-1974). The key aspects that emerge in the narratives of the former soldiers about their own war experience are identified. These aspects contextualize a set of practices, among them the use of legal and illegal drugs. Collected data show that the use of cannabis and the abuse of alcohol by Portuguese soldiers during this war was widespread, at the time when the first war-on-drugs initiatives were carried out in Portugal. The use of both alcoholic beverages and cannabis was, as research reveals, a way of dealing with anxiety and everyday violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: Problems related to alcohol consumption are frequent, especially among the youth population. We analyzed advertisement as one of several modifiable factors with impact over alcohol consumption. Method: The authors carried out a literature review within Medline, SciELO, Psychoinfo and Google Scholar databases between 1990 and 2008, retrieving studies with different approaches of the alcohol advertisement impact on consumption. Besides, a "snowball" technique was applied to identify the most proficuous authors on the matter. Over a hundred papers were initially selected. Results: The overall set of papers indicate that factors such as exposition to the advertising and attractiveness of the alcoholic beverage advertising are related with greater expectation of future consumption and with a higher and precocious consumption of alcohol, specially among adolescents and young adults. Despite methodological difficulties, recent econometrical studies indicate that reduction and/or banishment of advertising would decrease alcohol consumption. We also consider issues about the neurophysiology of decision making process and the freedom of choice in the context of exposition to advertisements. Conclusions: The current knowledge on the matter strongly suggests that a reduction of the exposition to alcohol advertisements impacts on its consumption, mainly among young populations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The goal of this paper is, through bibliographic research; analyze the use and consequences of alcohol and tobacco during pregnancy. For this study, we used scientific articles published between 2005 and 2011. The alcohol absorbed into the bloodstream, affects all body tissues. Studies show that 30 ml/day can cause spontaneous abortion, functional alterations, facial abnormalities, CNS anomalies, impaired growth, prematurity, heart failure, AFS, among others. The tobacco has more than 4,000 substances in their composition, many not yet known, but harmful to the fetus. Studies show that only 20% of pregnant women stop smoking during pregnancy, prim gravidae are the ones who abandon the habit. Although many guidelines are made during the visits of prenatal care, it is the competence of nurses, through lectures, pregnancy groups and even in prenatal consultations, guidance about the dangers of these substances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]