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BACKGROUND: The dropout rate from the treatment of patients with substance use disorders (SUD) negatively affects overall treatment outcomes. Little is known about the specific role of various psychiatric and psychosocial factors in the individual patients. Limited data is available in regards to mindset and addiction treatment, giving the opportunity of testing such interventions in the future. AIM: To identify the key psychological, psychosocial, and other treatment related factors in the patients from the inpatient substance use treatment with addiction who have dropped out of the program based on correlations with the patients' mindset. SETTING: Men's ward for treatment of SUD at the Department of Addictology, General University Hospital in Prague, the Czech Republic. SAMPLE: 120 male patients aged between 18 and 70 years sampled by convenience sampling in the Department of Addictology at the General University Hospital in Prague, Czech Republic. METHODS: The prospective study with the follow-up will be based on correlation analysis of self-reports questionnaires which are completed on the first week and the last week of the treatment, followed up by a short phone interview 6 months after the beginning of the treatment for the patients that have completed the treatment. The following is a protocol for the study that began in 2020 and will end at the end of 2023. Data will be stored according to the guidelines and treatment confidentially. DISCUSSION: Findings will be disseminated in peer reviewed scientific journals, national and international conferences, and in briefings to inform clinical decision making. It will provide information which will help to personalize treatment to meet unique needs of each patient and serve as dropout prevention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

INTRODUCTION: The foreign studies indicate that parental substance use makes it more likely that their children will engage in risk behaviour. Risk behaviour may be positively influenced by prevention programmes. AIM: The aim of this research project was to assess whether the Unplugged prevention programme has the desired effect on drinking among children at the age of approximately 15 years. The study addresses any differences in the effects on the children that depend on whether their mothers drink more than weekly. We regarded drinking as a sign of risk behaviour engaged in by children from families where the mothers use alcohol more or less than weekly. METHODS: The data of the children who were exposed to the prevention programme was compared to that of the children who did not participate in the programme. RESULTS: The Unplugged prevention programme was found to have no statistically measurable effect on drinking among children who came from families where the mother uses alcohol more than weekly. Children from the families where the mother reported using alcohol weekly or less frequently than that and who had been exposed to the Unplugged prevention programme were found to be less likely (by 63%) to report drunkenness in the last 30 days. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research on the employability of university graduates provides key feedback for universities, applicants, students, and decision makers. The topic is even more important at a time when the first international curricula (UPC/UTC) and professional platforms are being developed. The profession of an addiction specialist in the Czech Republic is a young one and it is still seeking to establish its position within the system of services for people with substance use disorders. Therefore, there is only limited data on addictologists' success in finding a job. AIMS: To identify the rate and characteristics of the employability of addictologists on the labour market, whether addictology graduates work in the field and under what conditions, and, if not, what prevents them from doing so. METHODS: The study population comprised the graduates of the academic programmes in addictology from 2005 to 2016. Data was collected using an online questionnaire survey, with a 59% response rate, and analysed using MS Excel and IBM SPSS 22. RESULTS: 58% of the respondents work in the field of addictology, mostly in low-threshold and outpatient services. 62% of them had already worked during their studies. 53% work in Prague, two-thirds of them on a full-time basis. One-third has another employment too. One half keeps the position of addictologists, more men than women. With statistical significance, men are more likely to work in the field. 69 persons do not work in the field of addictology, with 39 never having looked for such a job. The reasons for working in other fields included low salaries, the offer of a different job, and a lack of work opportunities. Those working in addictology tended to rate both the quality of the study programme and the demand for the profession in more positive terms and they are also significantly more likely to be members of the Czech Association of Addictologists. CONCLUSION: The results are of great value and will be used for adjusting the study programmes to meet the requirements of practice and for the internationalization process involving the implementation of the UPC and UTC curricula. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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BACKGROUND: Hagiotherapy, a therapeutic method for addiction treatment implemented by Remeš (1998) in the Bohnice Psychiatric Hospital, is based on group existential psychotherapy and dealing projectively with sacred (biblical) texts. This paper describes the contribution of hagiotherapy to addiction treatment from a patient's perspective. AIMS: The aim is to outline the principles of this method, as well as finding and describing the common aspects of the patients' experience during the therapy sessions within their inpatient treatment in the Bohnice Psychiatric Hospital. DESIGN AND MEASUREMENTS: The research used an individual questionnaire. An analytical method was used to evaluate the questionnaires. PARTICIPANTS: The research sample consisted of 20 respondents - 16 males and four females. RESULTS: Group meetings are very popular, which indicates the increasing desire to deal with values and morally significant questions. It has turned out that although patients understand what is good and what is evil, they wish to be encouraged in their values and moral attitudes. CONCLUSIONS: Hagiotherapy, which was used with patients in this group, was intended to treat their alcohol addiction or other types of addiction. The Bible turned out to be a suitable therapeutic tool because of its spiritual profundity and the wisdom of its texts. The respondents perceived hagiotherapy as a favourable variation in their treatment. During the sessions they could speak openly without any fear of expressing their opinions. The patients enjoyed participating in the sessions as they saw them as a positive step in their treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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BACKGROUND: Standard quantitative research analysing drug use at dance events (e.g. the "Dance and Drugs" survey) does not provide specific information about drug use at free parties. AIMS: The goal of this paper is to create a comprehensive survey of drug use at free parties supported by the results of a questionnaire survey. DESIGN AND MEASUREMENTS: The questionnaire was distributed directly at free parties in order to collect data, which were subsequently analysed using standard mathematical statistical techniques. PARTICIPANTS: The sample consists of 127 non-randomly selected (available) respondents recruited at four free parties in the period from April to August 2012. RESULTS : Alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana had been used by at least 70% of the respondents during the past year. Other substances included hallucinogens (63%), stimulants, ecstasy, GHB, and synthetic piperazine (59%), poppers (~12%), and opiates (~9%). CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence rates identified by our survey are in many cases higher than those yielded by the "Dance and Drugs 2007" survey. For example, major differences were found for the annual prevalence of LSD (53% vs. 21%) and magic mushrooms (48% vs. 20%). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]