L'objectif de cette thèse composée de six articles théoriques et empiriques, est d'identifier les moyens les plus efficaces d'encourager les usagers de drogues – légales et illégales – à adopter des habitudes plus saines en réduisant leur consommation. La première étape consiste à évaluer l’ampleur du problème en mesurant le coût social des drogues (tabac, alcool et drogues illicites) en France en 2010. Malgré les campagnes de prévention massives, la proportion inquiétante des consommateurs de substances nocives, mais surtout, la part élevée de personnes déclarant regretter d'avoir commencé leur consommation, conduisent à reconsidérer le paradigme traditionnel de l’addiction rationnelle, à la base de la plupart des travaux de recherche sur les addictions en économie. Au contraire, admettre une polyphasie cognitive chez les individus avec d’une part, un planner prenant ses décisions aussi rationnellement que ses capacités cognitives ne le lui permettent, et un doer ne cherchant qu’à atteindre une satisfaction immédiate, permet de construire un cadre théorique original tenant compte des émotions de court terme et de long terme des agents, ainsi que le rôle des normes sociales sur leurs décisions de consommation addictives. Le modèle construit à partir de ce cadre, ainsi que son analyse sur un panel de fumeurs français, permet de proposer des politiques novatrices visant à renforcer la motivation des individus à arrêter leur consommation addictive en réduisant leurs problèmes d’autocontrôle, en agissant sur leur perception des dangers liés à l’usage de drogues, et en ciblant un changement normatif de leur consommation. La plupart de ces recommandations ne sont pas applicables aux drogues illégales en raison de leur statut juridique. De ce fait, le seul levier permettant de définir une stratégie visant à réduire les coûts induits, est l’étude des alternatives juridiques à la pénalisation de la consommation, en particulier en ce qui concerne le cannabis, qui est la drogue illicite la plus largement utilisée en France, mais également dans la plupart des pays développés. / The objective of this thesis, composed of six academic papers, is to identify how to encourage people to adopt healthier habits by reducing their ⎯ legal and illegal ⎯ drug consumption. The first step is to evaluate the importance of the problem by measuring the social costs of drugs (tobacco, alcohol, and illegal drugs) in France in 2010. Despite massive prevention campaigns, the worrying proportion of harmful substance users and the high proportion of individuals who declare they regret having started consumption leads to reconsideration of the traditional paradigm of rational addiction and its extensions at the basis of most research works on addiction in economics. In contrast, admitting that individuals exhibit a dual process of reasoning, with a planner acting as rationally as the individual’s cognitive capabilities permit on the one hand and a doer who only seeks short-term rewards on the other, allows the construction of an original theoretical framework that takes into account consumers’ short-term and long-term emotions, and the role of social norms in addictive consumption. The model built from this framework and its testing through an analysis of smokers permit the proposal of innovative policies aiming to enhance individuals’ motivation to quit addictive consumption by (i) reducing their self-control problems, (ii) acting on their perception of the danger of the drug, and (iii) by targeting a normative change. Most of these recommendations are not applicable to illegal drugs due to their legal status. Thus, the strategy to reduce harm in this instance is to study the legal alternatives to the criminalization of use, especially for cannabis, which is the most widely used illegal drug in France, as it also is in most developed countries.

Currently, the debate over what constitutes a healthy lifestyle is very much debated in the media. Generally speaking, most people have a choice about what type of lifestyle they choose to lead. The characteristics of a healthy lifestyle include certain life habits including one's attitude toward diet and exercise. The type of lifestyle that we choose to live can influence our health and also the possibility of contracting certain diseases. Up to 50% of good health is dependent on a healthy lifestyle, whilst the other 50% is influenced by genetics, life conditions, and the environment one lives in. .

This diploma thesis deals with the lifestyle of lower secondary level teachers at the basic schools in Příbram. The theoretical part, which provides the grounding for the empirical part, describes the key term of lifestyle and the selected factors which have an essential impact on the choice of lifestyle considering the influences which directly or indirectly impact the choice. The topic is a very broad one therefore this thesis focuses on the most important aspects which are the subjective and objective agents impacting lifestyle positively or negatively. The empirical part deals with the research which was conducted via a questionnaire which was constructed to obtain the information concerning the lifestyle of teachers of lower secondary level schools in Příbram. The data was then statistically evaluated. The results were compared to the current knowledge in the field. The results show that teachers are threatened by insufficient physical exercise. 66 % or the respondents stated that they do not devote any time to physical exercise, also a high percentage of the respondents stated they can recognize some signs of being stressed. On the other hand, a positive finding was the fact that 76 % of teachers eat four to five times a day and 77 % of the respondents eat fruit and vegetables. Another positive finding was the fact that over half of the respondents do not smoke and 73 % stated there are content in their current job.

This convergent parallel mixed methods study based on Social Ecological Model investigated substance abuse among undergraduate university students at one of the universities in Ethiopia. For quantitative strand of study, data was collected from 422 randomly selected undergraduate students. Data were analysed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 17. For qualitative strand, face-to-face interviews were conducted with 17 purposefully selected participants directly involved with students abusing substances. The findings revealed that factors at individual, interpersonal, institutional, community and societal levels affect substance abuse among university students. The study also uncovered loopholes in the policies, guidelines, and programme implementations in the prevention, control, and management of substance abuse at the university. Based on the findings, the researcher developed guidelines based on the findings of the study, the critical literature review, and the inputs from the experts who reviewed the guidelines. The researcher assumes that implementation of the guidelines will reduce substance use and substance abuse among university students. / Health Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (Health Studies)

The subject of this study is the recognition of the link between service in the Police of the Czech Republic (PCR) and abuse of substances for supporting muscle growth and anabolic steroids. The service of PCR officer is often been connected to physical strenght and psychical resistence, which is given by training, personality and self-confidence of the officer. Masculinity and muscular body is seen by some officers as essential for this job and the standard there is shifted when compared to the other people. Anabolic Steroids - substances accesible on the illicit market - can be abused for fast muscle growth and outreaching the limits of ordinary man. The first part of this study is theoretical part, in which the aspects of police service are described, as they are risk factors for development of exercise addiction and abuse of substances for supporting muscle growth. The second part is practical part, where the research is described among the PCR officers, who are exercising regularly and are ranked in the Public Order Police Service. This research is searching for similarities between usage of supplements and Anabolic Steroids and subjectively viewed professional requirements. Also the amount of subjectively seen medical problems was compared between group of steroid-using officers and those...

Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-22T20:49:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-02-27 / Objetivo: Entender, através do discurso de quem já consumiu crack: como a fissura se processa, quais os comportamentos desenvolvidos sob fissura e quais as estratégias utilizadas pelo usuário para interferir na fissura. Metodologia: Estudo qualitativo com amostra intencional por critérios, constituída por usuários (n=31) e ex-usuários (n=9) de crack, de ambos os sexos, com idade entre 18 e 50 anos. Os investigados, pertencentes a 12 cadeias distintas, foram recrutados pela técnica da bola de neve e foram submetidos à entrevista semi-estruturada em profundidade, até que fosse atingido o ponto de saturação teórica da amostra. Após a transcrição literal das entrevistas, seguiu-se a análise do conteúdo para assim se elaborar inferências e hipóteses alicerçadas nesses discursos. Resultados e Discussão: Os 40 entrevistados estavam igualmente distribuídos quanto ao gênero, abrangiam todos os níveis de escolaridade e a maior parte possuía poucos recursos financeiros. Além da fissura sentida na abstinência de crack e da fissura induzida por pistas ambientais e emocionais, já conhecidas, constatou-se um terceiro tipo de fissura, a induzida pelo próprio efeito do crack. Assim que o usuário dá a primeira tragada desenvolve uma compulsão pelo consumo, levando-o ao uso ininterrupto, até que o estoque de droga acabe ou ele chegue à exaustão. Este tipo de fissura apareceu como um forte fator mantenedor dos episódios binge de consumo, os quais foram os maiores responsáveis pelo rebaixamento de valores do usuário, sujeitando-os a práticas não convencionais para a obtenção da droga e a fortes eventos de agressividade. Os entrevistados não só possuem estratégias para o alívio da fissura, como também possuem táticas para evitar o seu desenvolvimento, tanto de ordem farmacológica quanto comportamental. Conclusões: A fissura por crack, entre outros sintomas, desencadeia compulsão, comportamento de risco, sofrimento, agressividade e padrão binge de consumo, o qual pode estar relacionado ao desenvolvimento de dependência. Os binges de consumo de crack podem ser causados pela fissura induzida pelo próprio efeito do crack. A existência de medidas do próprio usuário para lidar com a sua fissura por crack pode ser uma ferramenta importante para o aprimoramento de seu tratamento. / Objective: To understand, through the discourse of individuals who have already consumed crack: how their cravings proceed; what behavioral patterns are developed with such cravings and what strategies users follow to hold back their cravings. Methodology: This was a qualitative study using an intentional sample with selection criteria, composed of crack users (n=31) and former users (n=9) of both sexes, aged 18 to 50 years. The subjects belonged to 12 different chains and were recruited using the snowballing technique. In-depth semi-structured interviews were held with recruits until the theoretical data saturation point of the sample was reached. The interviews were transcribed literally and the scripts then underwent content analysis in order to elaborate grounded inferences and hypotheses from the discourse. Results and Discussion: The interviewees were equally distributed regarding gender. They ranged over all educational levels and most of them had little money. In addition to the known cravings felt through abstaining from crack and through environmental and emotional paths, a third type of craving was observed, induced by the effect of the crack itself. As soon as the users took the first drag, they developed a compulsion to consume it, leading them to uninterrupted use until the supply ran out or they reached exhaustion. This type of craving appeared to be a strong factor in maintaining episodes of bingeing. Such episodes were the greatest factors responsible for lowering users’ values, thereby impelling them to act unconventionally to obtain the drug, with highly aggressive events. The interviewees not only had strategies for relieving their cravings, but also had tactics to avoid their development, both of pharmacological and of behavioral nature. Conclusions: The craving by crack, among other symptoms, triggers compulsion, risk behavior, suffering, aggression and binge pattern of consumption, which may be related to the development of dependence. Bingeing on crack may be caused by the craving that the effect of the crack itself induces. Users’ own measures for dealing with their cravings for crack may constitute an important tool for improving their treatment. / TEDE

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The thesis has a theoretic and an empiric character. The theoretical part deals with a term the addiction on drugs and characterizes its particular types and stages. It describes possible demonstrations of addictions, causes and conditions of origin of addictions and its influence on human?s development and his or her life in a social group and in his or her family. The thesis is occupied with kinds, possibilities and efficiency of chosen types of drugs prevention and school?s possibilities of diagnosing and addiction managing. The practical part considers with finding contemporary condition of drugs addictions on the second grade at primary schools in České Budějovice and with types of preventions which are used in these schools.

Lifestyle is one of the most important factors that can affect health but in these days lifestyle of many people is alarming. Scientists agree that more than 60 % of diseases are caused by a wrong lifestyle. My essay is divided into theoretical and empirical part. In the theoretical one I deal with the definition of a lifestyle and factors that can affect it (nutrition, sport, drug addiction, relaxation, sex, sleep). In the empirical part I present results of my investigation which was focused on the difference between the lifestyle of men and women ? students of USB. I used qestionnaire with 33 questions given to 420 respondents, rate of return was 87 %. I think that this essay can be very well used in nutrition ambulance, teachwares and also in public who is not negligent to their lifestyle.

The aim of the master´s thesis is to analyze issue of drugs at primary school in Borovany. A survey reasearch was realized there and not only the pupils abut also the teachers were involved. A quantitative research was realized from 24/3 to 28/3 2014 in lessons of civics with cooperation of Headmaster Mgr. Luboš Laczko and teachers of second stage of elementary school. Conclusion of the research is a summary of results. The questionnares shows that the pupils of elementary school in Borovany have varied experience with drugs. The pupils use drugs to liven their ordinary days up.