Objective: to know care experiences lived by users of the Psychosocial Care Center Alcohol and other drugs, under the focus of integrality as a potentializer of subjectivities. Method: qualitative study, with integrality as an analysis category, carried out with 14 users. The material was produced through reflection workshops, with a focus on the care experiences lived and analyzed by the discourse analysis technique. Results: the care offered by CAPSad professionals enables the construction of self-control in the face of drugs and, as a result, opens the way to autonomy, resocialization and the rescue of citizenship. Final considerations: the experiences lived by users are based on welcoming care practices from the perspective of comprehensiveness, capable of establishing bonds and producing changes in the relationship of people with drugs, based on desired results.