Attitudes and experience of the university students with drugs of abuse

CHARLES UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE FACULTY OF PHARMACY IN HRADEC KRÁLOVÉ ATTITUDES AND EXPERIENCE OF STUDENTS WITH ADDICTIVE SUBSTANCES: Attitudes of the third year undergraduate pharmacy students of Charles University in Hradec Králové towards illegal drugs Veronika Mašová This dissertation deals with the attitudes, experience and knowledge of illegal drugs. The study targets to the third year undergraduate pharmacy students of Charles University in Hradec Králové in academic year 2005/2006. It contains both theoretical part and practical part. In theoretical part we find basic terms, pharmacology of some addictive substances and the review of drug situation in Europe and the Czech Republic. The practical part performes the results of anonymous questionnaire. In the discussion, the result of questionnaire are compared with the results from the first year undergraduate pharmacy student in the same year. Results of search from another faculties (Prague and Brno) and ESPAD study are compared with this investigation too. 139 students take part in this search. The age interval ranged from 21 to 30 years and the mean age was 21,7 years. My study determines that the mean age, when students tried drugs for the first times, is 17,9 years. Students have the biggest experience with marijuana. It was offered to 74,5% of..