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Reintegration of Former Drug Abusers in Society
ZEMANOVÁ, Karolína
The bachelor thesis deals with the experience of former substance users with reintegration into society after leaving a therapeutic community or psychiatric hospital. The aim of the thesis is to find out the application in the personal lives of former users of addictive substances after leaving a treatment centre. The bachelor thesis is divided into two parts - the theoretical one and the practical one. The theoretical part deals with the definition of the most important terms associated with the bachelor thesis. In the initial part, there are described individual addictive substances, substance abuse, and options of the treatment of substance addiction. The next part focuses on reintegration and its basic terms. The final part deals with aftercare. The practical part concentrates on the survey for which were chosen two research questions dealing with the way of integration of former users of addictive substances into society and with one of the greatest obstacles that former substance users face during the reintegration. For getting the results was chosen a qualitative survey and the interview method, concretely a method of the semi-structured interview. The examined sample consisted of eleven informants who were chosen by the self-selection and the snowball sampling. Obtained data were subsequently analysed via the grounded theory method. The results of the survey revealed that the best means for the successful reintegration is the focus on aftercare and, ideally, stay in the aftercare centre. Having secured employment, quality family background, and financial security is necessary for easier maintenance of abstinence. The bachelor thesis may serve as a manual for various facilities working with users of addictive substances, such as therapeutic communities, psychiatric hospitals, and aftercare centres.
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Employment Services for Former Substance Users in the Czech Republic in Comparison with Similar Services in Scotland and Austria
Veis, Štěpán ; Kocianová, Renata (advisor) ; Kopecký, Martin (referee)
The diploma thesis "Employment Services for Former Substance Users in the Czech Republic in Comparison with Similar Services in Scotland and Austria" discusses the problem of employment of people that used illegal drugs for some time in their lives and now abstain. To get a job and keep it is fundamental for them to be able to prosper in newly started life. Former substance users are characterized with respect to their position in the labour market and the need of social reintegration. Their employability in the Czech labour market is given from the point of view of the clients and workers of the treatment facilities, and from the point of view of potential employers. The possibilities of employment services offered to former substance users are then shown by three projects, i.e. Czech Work and Social Agency of SANANIM, o. s., Scottish Addiction Workers' Training Programme, carried out by Scottish Drugs Forum, and Austrian social firm Fix und Fertig, a branch of Verein Wiener Sozialprojekte. The projects are compared as to their approaches to the problem of employability, basic parameters that employment services offered to the former substance users should take into account are defined, and finally, the possibilities of development of these services in the Czech Republic are outlined.
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