Monitoring of the Use of Addictive Substances in Students and Clients at Contact Centres

The aim of this thesis was to monitor the situation in the field of addictive substance usage among problem drug users and university students, to analyze opinions and attitudes of the participants on/towards this problems and to assess the amount of both legal and illegal substances usage by them. A questionnaire was used for this research; it was distributed to clients of contact centres in the Region of Zlín and to students of the University Hradec Králové, Thomas Bata Univesity in Zlín, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové in the Czech Republic and University of Camerino in Italy. 186 clients and 1339 students have participated in this survey. The most important conclusions of this work are following: 1. Alcohol and nicotine usage is widespread both in the population of regular drug users (47.8% of the respondents smoke regularly and 38.7% of them drink alcohol at least several times a week) and among students (39.4% of the Czech students and 46.6% of the Italian ones smoke at least rarely; 21.0% of the Czechs and 23.6% of the Italians drink alcohol at least several times a week). The first experience with alcohol respectively with nicotine was stated at average 12.4 respectively 12.5 years by the clients, at 12.4 respectively 13.8 years by the Czech and at 15.4..