Polícias, trabalho e consumos de performance

Abstract

Equating the relationship between the nature of work and performance consumption (medicines, food supplements and other natural products) to enhance physical, intellectual and social performance of the professional group of police officers (Polícia de Segurança Pública) is the object center of this article. The use of such consumption is a social phenomenon with relative cultural dissemination within the scope of pharmacologization processes. The present study was based on a mixed methodology that included documental analysis, semi-directive interviews, focus groups and questionnaire survey. As can be concluded, the social pressure factors inherent to police activity configure a work context, diverse in tasks, permeated by risk and by public and institutional judgment, in which performance consumption is relevant to professional action