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Effect of addictive drugs on prenatal development
Hofmannová, Oldřiška ; Peterka, Miroslav (advisor) ; Peterková, Renata (referee)
Substance abuse is long-term worldwide problem. This thesis summarizes findings about the effects of stimulants, opiates and hallucinogens and focuses on the most commonly used illegal representatives of individual groups: cocaine, amphetamines, heroin and LSD. All these substances have negative effect on both mother and her fetus. Some of addictive substances can influence pregnancy and childbirth. There is also higher risk of fetus mortality and morbidity of the new born baby. Prenatal exposure to addictive substances could have influence on the birth weight, length, head circumference, its further growth and behavior. Some drugs can cause neonatal abstinent syndrome which can lead without prenatal care to death of newborn.
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The investigation of narcotics and psychotropics abuse in the context of following aspects of criminal offence
BINTEROVÁ, Andrea
The dissertation work entitled "The Investigation of narcotic and psychotropic substances' misuse in the context of related offence" is a report focused on current situation in drug abuse in the Czech Republic. Social, health, economic and criminal consequences of narcotic and psychotropic substances' misuse are serious social-patologic phenomenon. The drug abuse is a threat to the social status of individuals as well as their communities, and results in separation from major society. They gradually lose contact with their natural social environment, give up any possibilities to obtain, improve or just keep their qualification, lose job together with economic independence and their family life breaks down. The life failure culminates in psychical or fysical problems. The risk of addiction permeate through the whole population; narcotic and psychotropic substance's abuse threaten particularly working people. According to the author, the most threatened groups are children and teenagers between 13 and 18 followed by young people who have just reached civil competence, and specific professions such as prostitutes or artists {--} with their problems, fashion eccentricity, extreme stress, drugs accessibility and financial security. This dissertation work deals with a lot of aspects of drug abuse: definition of the addiction, start and development of the addiction, stages gradually culminating in the addiction, specification of the notions of the addiction, specification of every single drug, global view on drug abuse as a world problem, health consequences, infectious diseases prevention, drugs in public places of entertainment, impact of criminal law, therapy, solutions in prison conditions, students' opinions survey. The survey searched for secondary-school-students' attitudes to the risks of drug abuse and investigated their personal ways to cope with those risks.
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