Factors Influencing Dependence on Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances in Youth

This thesis concerns the problems of the juvenile drug-addicts, who were ordered preliminary ruling or undertaking in-patient treatment by the Court. The object of the thesis involves realization of the configuration of the factors, which has led to drug abuse by six juvenile persons. Furthermore, it points out the possibilities and risks of intervention from the state authorities and institutions in case of occurance of behaviour disorder and negative phenomenons of the social development of a child. From the methodological point of view the matter concerns the qualitative approach whereby the methods of gaining of the data have involved interviews, work with the documents and observation. The data have been analyzed by means of descriptive approach, the method of creating of the tufts and the method of retrieval and distinguishing of the relationships. The interpretation has run in three phases. The first phase involved processing of the collected data in order to distinguish the basic categories and subcategories of the analysis, during the second phase the whole life-experience of the juvenile drugaddicts in the form of the case study has been performed, during the third phase the case studies are being discussed with the existing "Profiles" of the drugaddicts. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org