Contact Centres for Drug Addicts and their Support Activities

The aim of the thesis "Contact Centres for Drug Addicts and their Support Activities" is to describe a specific way of work with drug addicts except the alcohol drug addicts. Firstly it considers the concept of drugs, drug addiction, while examining an impact on an individual as well as the society. This work describes the functioning of the low threshold contact centres as one of the possible solution of this problem. The philosophy of the centres is to be easy accessible to everyone. The contact centre s purvey to its clients anonymous services free of charge. Service of such centres leads to the reduction of health hazard (transmission of infectious diseases, inflammatory diseases, etc.) and a social stabilization of the client. At the very most it may also leads to the therapy and permanent abstinence of the client. It means this does not solve only the drug addiction, but also decrease the impact of drug addicťs risk behaviours to the society. The research was conducted in the contact centre Sananim. It maps the range of clients in this centre, investigates the degree of their social stabilization, service using and the effectiveness of harm reduction