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Crimes of clients in methadone substitution facilities in Prague
Vyskočilová, Lucie ; Šejvl, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Janíková, Barbara (referee)
This bachelor's work focuses on the area of crime committed by clients of facilities providing methadone substitution in Prague. It is divided into two parts - theoretical, where the chapters deal with main topics related with methadone substitution, substitution facilities in Prague, drug related crime and valid legislation concerning drug crime, whereas the research part provides data from questionnaire inquiry that took place in April - May 2013 in three Prague methadone facilities. Decrease of drug related crime is one of the goals of methadone maintenance treatment (next to lowering health risks, stabilization of social status etc.), so fulfilment of this goal might provide a convincing argument for the appropriate authorities competent to distribute financial sources into social and medical services, just as for the public who also tend to see aspects of crime and financial costs for society with great importance. It then seems only fitting to research whether we are successful in meeting these goals. With the permission of the Ethics committee of the General University Hospital, Prague there has been carried out a questionnaire inquiry in three different Prague facilities and data was gathered from 119 respondents (75 of them were from high-threshold facilities, 44 from low-threshold...
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