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Abuse of new synthetic drugs among troubled users - distribution of NSD on open drug scene in the Czech Republic and their identification.
Beranová, Kateřina ; Běláčková, Vendula (advisor) ; Janíková, Barbara (referee)
New synthetic drugs are a new phenomenon that is expanding in many countries. NSD mimic the effects of traditional drugs phenomenological, but retain the hallmark of legal substances. NSD legal status is due to the fact that theses new substances are controlled by the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 or the UN Convention on Psychotropic Substances, 1971. To the Czech Republic this trend came somewhat later than in neighboring countries, and especially in 2010, when sales NSD was mainly in shops. This sale was completed in April 2011 becouse of entering 33th NSD to the list of psychotropic and narcotic substances and moved mostly to the internet. NSD composition is often changing, due to disabling preparatory material, it follows that the risks associated with the use of NSD are unpredictable. The research objective of this study is to determine the acquisition and distribution of NSD between problem drug users and also to map the most widely used NSD among this population.The main purpose of the research is to bring knowledge (as it's called, how it look, what it contains, where and from whom it receives, how much it costs). The survey was made up of semi-structures interviews (qualitative part) and structured questionnaires (quantitative part). Respondents were selected...
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Perception of riskiness of the new synthetic drugs (legal highs) among their users
Drápalová, Eva ; Běláčková, Vendula (advisor) ; Grohmannová, Kateřina (referee)
There is a rise of new phenomenon in drug use in the last few years. There has been increase in the incidence of new synthetic drugs, or the so-called "legal highs" and their use in the general population became more frequent. Legal highs are substances that mimic the effects of illegal drugs, but they are not controlled by the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 or the UN Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971. These substances can produce comparable risks and harms simmilar to the illegal drugs (EMCDDA, 2009c). The aim of research conducted for the purpose of this thesis is to reveal how the risks associated with the use of these products are percieved by their users, whether their legal status has any influence on the perception of their safety and how do the users minimize risks that may be associated with the use of these substances Qualitative research carried out for the needs of graduate work used data obtained by two methods. The first method was a content analysis of online discussion forums of new synthetic drugs users. 16 online discussion forums with a total number of 832 posts were analyzed. The second method were semi-structured interviews with users of new synthetic drugs. They were conducted with 9 respondents. Regarding the perception of risk, some...
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Abuse of new synthetic drugs among troubled users - distribution of NSD on open drug scene in the Czech Republic and their identification.
Beranová, Kateřina ; Běláčková, Vendula (advisor) ; Janíková, Barbara (referee)
New synthetic drugs are a new phenomenon that is expanding in many countries. NSD mimic the effects of traditional drugs phenomenological, but retain the hallmark of legal substances. NSD legal status is due to the fact that theses new substances are controlled by the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 or the UN Convention on Psychotropic Substances, 1971. To the Czech Republic this trend came somewhat later than in neighboring countries, and especially in 2010, when sales NSD was mainly in shops. This sale was completed in April 2011 becouse of entering 33th NSD to the list of psychotropic and narcotic substances and moved mostly to the internet. NSD composition is often changing, due to disabling preparatory material, it follows that the risks associated with the use of NSD are unpredictable. The research objective of this study is to determine the acquisition and distribution of NSD between problem drug users and also to map the most widely used NSD among this population.The main purpose of the research is to bring knowledge (as it's called, how it look, what it contains, where and from whom it receives, how much it costs). The survey was made up of semi-structures interviews (qualitative part) and structured questionnaires (quantitative part). Respondents were selected...
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Patterns of mephedrone use in Kadaň and its surroundings: a qualitative study
Scherberová, Jana ; Vacek, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Běláčková, Vendula (referee)
Background: In few last years we can see a rise of use of a new psychoactive substances, not only in population of problem users, but in the general population, too. These substances mimic the affects of illegal drugs and using them can cause simmilar risks as using illegal drugs (EMCDDA, 2009c). The most commonly used new psychoactive substance is mephedrone. In last 4 years mephedrone has spread very fast in the european drug market, especially in Great Britain (Zaostřeno na drogy 4, 2010), where mephedrone became the 6th most popular drug in 2010 (Kuchař in Kalina et al., 2015). Prevalence researches of mephedrone have not been realized yet in Czech republic, but research made by National monitoring center focused on internet users in 2001 shows that from 1091 respondents in age range of 15 to 35, 50 have used new psychoactive substances. This 50 respondents and other 101 recruited by snowball sampling have participated in follow-up research, one third of this respondents have used mephedrone. Aims: The aim of the study was to describe patterns of use of mephedrone among its users in Kadaň and its surroundings. Emphasis is mainly placed on patterns of users bahavior from purchasing to aplication of mephedrone, what the intoxication looks like, which motives leads users to mephedrone use and with...
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Regulatory options for "New Psychoactive Substances" in the Czech Republic
Pospíšil, Vratislav ; Nekola, Martin (advisor) ; Brázová, Věra - Karin (referee)
After 2010, substances that have similar effects as opiate drugs and stimulant drugs started to appear in the Czech Republic as well as in other European countries and around the world, however they are not controlled by any legislation because of their "newness". The aim of this study is to evaluate whether under the current circumstances this is a problem that should be solved politically, including the assessment of its extent. The current solutions to this problem focused on its regulation shall be assessed on the basis of the results of this analysis. The thesis also aims to identify different perspectives of the drugs issue experts and to understand their involvement in the process of making the drug policy of the Czech Republic concerning these substances. The first part describes the current situation in the field of new psychoactive substances in the Czech Republic using a qualitative method of the documentary content analysis, and introduces the legislative approaches currently used at both national and international level. The research part employs the qualitative research methods (semi- structured interviews with experts in the field of drugs problems). The carried out research has found that the experts perceive new psychoactive substances as a problem whose extent however is not as intensive...
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Perception of riskiness of the new synthetic drugs (legal highs) among their users
Drápalová, Eva ; Běláčková, Vendula (advisor) ; Grohmannová, Kateřina (referee)
There is a rise of new phenomenon in drug use in the last few years. There has been increase in the incidence of new synthetic drugs, or the so-called "legal highs" and their use in the general population became more frequent. Legal highs are substances that mimic the effects of illegal drugs, but they are not controlled by the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 or the UN Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971. These substances can produce comparable risks and harms simmilar to the illegal drugs (EMCDDA, 2009c). The aim of research conducted for the purpose of this thesis is to reveal how the risks associated with the use of these products are percieved by their users, whether their legal status has any influence on the perception of their safety and how do the users minimize risks that may be associated with the use of these substances Qualitative research carried out for the needs of graduate work used data obtained by two methods. The first method was a content analysis of online discussion forums of new synthetic drugs users. 16 online discussion forums with a total number of 832 posts were analyzed. The second method were semi-structured interviews with users of new synthetic drugs. They were conducted with 9 respondents. Regarding the perception of risk, some...
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