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The Importance of Substitution Programmes in Drug Addiction Therapy System
MÁLKOVÁ, Gabriela
The title of my thesis is: The Importance of Substitution Programmes in Drug Addiction Therapy System. Substitution therapy has its unique place especially in the treatment of opioid addictions. It helps individuals with stabilization and improvement of their social, somatic and mental state and it is important for the society, when public spending on the care and repression are reduced thanks to substitution treatment. In this bachelors thesis I deal with the issue of the effects of substitution therapy on the lives of people who use it for a long time. First, in the theoretical part, I define the issues concerning the addiction on non-alcohol drugs and then I deal with substitution therapy, its history, its current situation, its forms, types and components that substitution therapy includes. Attention in this section is paid to the effectiveness in terms of individual as well as social; therefore, I focus also on the disadvantages and difficulties that are associated with substitution therapy. As the objective of the thesis I chose to discover the importance of substitution programmes in drug addiction treatment. To achieve this objective, I defined two subobjectives, namely: Mapping the subjective evaluation of mental, somatic and social satisfaction of persons included in a substitution programme, and the comparison of mental, somatic and social situation prior and after inclusion of the client in a substitution programme. Given these objectives, I established three research questions that ask about the effects of substitution treatment on the social, somatic and mental aspects of the respondents. The research was conducted in a qualitative form, by the method of interviewing and the technique of semi-structured interviews. The research results have confirmed the improvements or stabilization of social, somatic and mental aspects of persons included in long-term substitution programmes. As the core finding I consider the fact that there is some abuse of substitution therapy, in which case its effectiveness in these three levels is less visible than in persons observing substitution therapy in the prescribed manner. The results of my thesis can serve for the needs for further research, to inform the general public and professionals, and they also have a practical use when working with clients in substitution treatment.
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