*Correspondence to Author: Ademir Ferreira Júnior How to cite this article: Ademir Ferreira Júnior, Lino José da Silva, Maria Sandinéia Bezerra, Taciana Silva Dias Nogueira, Ana Caroline Melo dos Santos, Virginia Elaine Martins de Souza Figueire- do. IMPULSIVITY IN COCAINE/ CRACK USERS IN THE CITY OF ARAPIRACA IN ALAGOAS.Inter- national Journal of Addiction Re- search and Therapy, 2019, 2:7 eSciPub LLC, Houston, TX USA. Website: http://escipub.com/ Ademir Ferreira Júnior et al., IJART, 2019 2:7 International Journal of Addiction Research and Therapy (ISSN:2637-8795) Research Article IJART (2019) 2:7 IMPULSIVITY IN COCAINE/CRACK USERS IN THE CITY OF ARAPIRACA IN ALAGOAS Introduction: Currently drug use is as a major problem of glob- al public health, given the diversity of aspects involved in drug abuse, psychoactive substances exert impacts on users, families and community, contributing to damage to the physical and men- tal health, as well as the socio-economic vulnerability and legal problems. Objective: Analyze the degree of cocaine / crack us- ers behavior in Cozy Communities and the Reference Center for Population Homeless (POP Center) located in Arapiraca city in Alagoas. Methodology: This is a research with a quantitative ap- proach, performed in Cozy Communities and POP Center, which are distributed in the city of Arapiraca. The instrument used for the production of data was made by means of structured inter- views conducted in the period May to July 2018, in its physical space of the institutions, listing the sociodemographic profle and Impulsiveness Scale - BIS 11. For impulsive behavior grade anal- ysis was used to impulsiveness scale - 11 BIS, based on “Ernst Barratt model, which is considered as one of the most important in impulsive behavior explanation”. Results: The results obtained, the overall score obtained an average of 2.38 were found for each partial average score of the three subdomains impulsive- ness, the resulting average motor impulsivity: 2.24 to attentional impulsivity: 2.51 and impulsivity not planning: 2.34. Conclusion: This study shows the importance of impulsivity associated with the pattern of use of psychoactive substances. Keywords: Cocaine/crack, behavior, nursing. Ademir Ferreira Júnior1*, Lino José da Silva1, Maria Sandinéia Bezerra1, Taciana Silva Dias Nogueira1, Ana Caroline Melo dos Santos2, Virginia Elaine Martins de Souza Figueiredo . ABSTRACT IJART:http://escipub.com/international-journal-of-addiction-research-and-therapy/ 1