University students and their attitudes and experiences with drugs of abuse

Charles University Fakulty of Pharmacy Hradec Králové Department of Pharmacology and Toxikology Autor: Věra Vondráčková Supervisor: Prof. MUDr. Peter Višňový, Csc. Title of Diploma Thesis: Attitudes and Experiences of the Student of The Faculty of Pharmacy in their 3rd year of Study (2004/2005) with the Dependent Drugs. Presented thesis is focused to the problems of misusing of psychoactive substances in the university students. Using of the special questionnaire research the sample of 177 students in their 3rd year of study in the Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Karloff was questioned. The students were divided into three groups. In the first group were selected the students who never tried any dependent drug (55.4%). In the second group are show the student who used marihuana (mostly only once). In the third group were selected those students who used repeatedly marihuana and hashish and their tried also other drugs such as LSD, amphetamines and similar drugs. None of the students used opiates and other problematic drugs. At the comparison of the obtained results with the Annual Report of the Drug misusing in the Czech Republic was examined the students from all given problematic drugs in the age of 18 - 24 years used frequently only LSD than other people in the same age (Faculty of Pharmacy 6.9%)...