Goals: to focus on the Quality of life in clients of the substitution program according the duration of treatment at the Department of Addictology, 1. LF UK a VFN in Prague. Background: The topic of dissertation was chosen on the basis of a 16-year clinical experience of the author with the target group of clients in methadone substitution. I realized based on long-term observation, that clients go through certain stages of satisfaction with their lives. This may correspond with their functioning in the program. The theoretical part describes the substitution treatment for opiate dependence and quality of life concept. Methods: A total selection method was chosen. Data are collected using a standardized questionnaire World Health Organization - WHOQOL-BREF (short version). File: The research sample consists of 39 patients (out of total of 65 clients of Substitution centre, Department of Addictology First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General Teaching Hospital in Prague. Results: There were no significant differences in the quality of life in relation to the duration of treatment. The highest quality of life had clients in the category 2-5 years in the program. The lowest score gained clients in category over 5 years. Patients in category of 2 years received an average score. The...

of the thesis Introduction: The topic of those who have been victims of human trafficking and who are also addicted to drugs is something not yet deeply investigated. The prevetion, intervention and social services for those who are both drug addicts and victims of human trafficking should be based on good knowledge of the situation each of thier particular needs. Helping organizations for this population of people report that from thier expereinces, this is a situation that continues to become more problematic. It is important to be aware of these situations in order to improve them. Victims of human trafficking who also struggle with drug addiction is a situation that deals with many types of needs. It is important to understand each of those comprehensively to fully help the people to return to a social life. Claim: The aim of this work is to describe the various barriers that people face when looking to access addiction rehabilitation centers. This work is from the point-of-view of the victims of human trafficking as well as from the professionals who work with those victims. The aim of the work is to examine how both the professional and victim look at all parts of the issues of barriers. Methods: Quality research was conducted using semi-structured interviews with human traffick victims and...

OUŘEDNÍKOVÁ, Veronika. Addicted mothers in relation to pregnancy and motherhood. Praha, 2016. 84 s. Diploma thesis. Charles University, Hussite theological faculty. Supervisor: PhDr. Miloslav Čedík The diploma thesis deals with problems of drug addiction of women during pregnancy and motherhood. The work is divided into theoretical and practical. The theoretical part discusses the basic concepts and generally approaching the issue. An important part of this passage is the chapter that describes care system in the Czech Republic on drug-dependent pregnant women and mothers. The practical part is mainly composed of qualitative research, which was conducted in therapeutic community Karlov with drug addicted mothers. The second part of the thesis is to investigate the influence of pregnancy and motherhood on the life of drug addicted women. In conclusion, the diploma thesis presents the results obtained on the basis of the research, which was conducted through semi-structured interviews with clients in healing the therapeutic community Karlov.

Thesis abstract Author's name: Vendula Perglerová School: Charles University in Prague, Philosophical Faculty, Department of Education Program: Master full-time study of education Title: Specifics of work with adolescent drug abusers Consultant: PhDr. M. Vítečková, Ph.D. Number of pages: 97 Key words: addiction, drug, adolescent drug users, therapy, case study The aim of this thesis is to understand the mechanisms of addiction in adolescent drug users, to describe their specifics and to provide on this basis a guide to choosing effective means of help in treatment of adolescent drug abusers. It monitors the process of origination and progress of substance addiction. It illustrates possibilities of treatment in individual phases of the addiction process. It introduces a concrete treatment program targeted on adolescent drug abusers. Practical part describes five individual cases of adolescent drug abusers, examines causes of substance abuse in each of them and characterizes individual treatment approach based on them.

Subject: How a drogue ex-user see a period of his addiction. Abstract: The work focus on the actual situation of ex-users. These people were fighting with an addiction and now they are a part of the majority society. The qualitative research, inspired by a grounded theory, try to approach their point of view. What they think about their past and how do they see their relations with a family, friends and a vicinage. Not just in that period but nowadays as well. Relationships with home-folks are stigmatized by a degree of drug addiction. The smaller addiction the smaller losses. Once a drug user is falling down into the drug trap, the losses depend on how deep he will fall. On the bottom there are no friends, no family, just nothing. Some of the drug users do not fall to the bottom, they do their decision earlier. We call that decision a break point ( a moment when they decide to abstain). A break point comes individually and it is connected to an "interior border" of each person. Anyway, it is a moment, when an individual concerned decide to live a different way. It is a very intense moment and very fundamental for a abstinence success. We have used an interview to study not just this phenomenon. During the interview we tried to find out how a life looks with and without an addiction. Key words: addiction,...

Thesis "Gambling and its consequences - qualitative research of pathological gamblers" is discussing gambling as a present phenomenon and about the effects of gambling on gamblers and his environment in different aspects of his life. Theoretical part provides the introduction to this problem, specification of definitions and also particular impact of gambling on itself, namely health, social, criminal law and last but not least, financial consequences. The practical part deals with stories of abstaining gamblers and their subjectively perceived impacts of gambling on their lives, hindering factors in the development of addiction and factors facilitating entering to the treatment.

The aim of this diploma thesis is to depict the uniqueness of a person suffering from alcoholism, including a self-reflection of his own life before joining the AA group and after. Moreover, the thesis focuses on the perception of a person's addiction and especially his search for sobriety. The next objective is the identification of specific kinds and sources of social support for each individual in the context of AA group. The theoretical part concerns the concept of social support, the topic of self-help and self-helping groups, focusing on a self-help AA group. This part of the thesis also includes the characteristics of addictive behavior with the specifications of alcohol addiction. A qualitative research and a method of semi-structured interview have been chosen for the purposes of the empirical study. The analysis and interpretation of the data was inspired by the principles of the grounded theory. This empirical study is based on primary research areas: a description of active alcoholic's life perception, a strategy of the struggle with addiction, a way to abstinence through the self-help groups of AA and a reflection of the alcoholics' lives in sobriety.

Cette thèse vise à rendre compte de la consommation de jeux de hasard et d’argent, y compris dans ses modalités les plus extrêmes, alors même que l’activité transgresse des normes d’usage du temps libre et de l’argent, qui la font apparaitre comme irrationnelle et dotée d’une faible légitimité culturelle. A partir d’entretiens avec des joueurs à Paris (n=51), l’analyse de données quantitatives (Baromètre santé INPES et Budget des familles INSEE) et l’étude des parcours de jeu de personnes consultant dans un centre d’addictologie de Nantes (n=84) cette recherche montre que les joueurs conçoivent la pratique comme une voie alternative d’enrichissement dans un contexte de limitation des ressources et comme une prise de risque délibérée permettant de regagner une forme de contrôle sur leur devenir social. Les surconsommations, assimilées dorénavant à une maladie du cerveau ou de la volonté, résultent en réalité du raccourcissement des horizons temporels du fait de la précarisation et de la dégradation des conditions de vie de la personne dépendante qui la poussent à chercher des solutions de mieux-être à court terme. La prise de risque ludique apparait bien comme une échappatoire à des sentiments de frustration ou d’insécurité, ce qui interdit de n’en faire qu’un problème psycho-médical participant de la légitimation du marché en imposant de nouvelles normes de consommation « responsable ». / This PhD thesis intends to provide explanation to the consumption of gambling including its most extreme forms, in spite of the transgression of norms framing the uses of free time and money that contribute to the vision of the phenomenon as irrational and illegitimate. The research is based on interviews with gamblers in Paris (n=51), quantitative data and the analysis of gambling carriers of gamblers, treated in the Nantes addiction center (n=84). The ambition of this work is to show that gamblers conceive their activity as an alternative mean of enrichment in a context of restricted opportunities. Their actions are composed with voluntary risk-taking allowing to regain a sense of control over their future. Excessive consumptions, labeled nowadays as brain-diseases or weaknesses of will, are in reality the result of the shortening of time-perceptions due to precariousness and degradation of living conditions of the dependent person. The addicted gambler is driven into an attitude of a permanent seeker of short term solutions that allow him to gain access to wellness. Gambling appears to represent an escape from frustration or insecurity. This fact invalidates the psycho-medical conception that legitimates the gambling market by imposing new norms of “responsible” gambling.

BACKGROUND: This study focuses on a very sensitive and underestimated topic of drug addiction among medical staff. There is necessary interdisciplinary approach, focusing on psychosocial and environmental factors involved in the etiology of addiction among medical staff. The profession of paramedical staff demands to work with people and responsibility for their lives, so it is important that this work must be performed by a person in mental and physical well-being for performing adequate quality of care. Despite the awareness and exploration of burnout syndrome, the occurrence is still a current issue. Manifested mainly as a reaction to the working stress (Kebza, Šolcová, 2004). This working stress may penetrate also into the overall quality of life (Křivohlavý, 2013). Frequent helper in the stages of burnout syndrome is drinking alcohol, which shows the effects of antidepressants, which can be progress to alcoholism in certain situations (Ühlinger, 2009). OBJECTIVES: The research objective of this study is to determine the relation between alcohol consumption, occurrence of burnout syndrome and subjective evaluation of life quality among paramedical staff working in the hospital. METHODS: The study was performed by quantitative form and realized through standardized psychological instruments:...

OF THE THESIS BACKGROUNDS: Family background is a place which is very important for the child's development. Presence of each parent has its own role in education. Absence of one parent carries with it risks of adequate development. Paternal role in education is more and more important. Father has the significant role in his son's developmental tasks, making his own identity, being his male model. He can teach his son to be disciplined, to control agression and hot temper and other things that can influence the dealing with psychotherapeutic proces in the drug addicts during their medium-term treatment in a medical institution. The thesis deals with the medium-term treatment of male drug addicts, educational environment and its influence on coping with the psychoterapeutic process and it describes the diference between individuals who were grown up fatherless and those who were grown up in a complete family. The aim is to characterize how the psychotherapeutic process in men treated in a medical institution can be influenced by the absence of father in the education and how this connection is felt by the clients. METHODS: The practical part of the thesis was realized by the qualitative research. The information about this topic was gained from the dialogues with the men who are being treated. The...