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2010/1

Pilot Study of Tobacco Dependence among Schizophrenia Patients

Student's Alerts

Alerts

Public alert WWW.STOPHIV.CZ

Non-profit organisations working in drug services are raising an alert with respect to politicians and public administration practices that can result in a public health threat

For future students

Information for future students

This article presents information that might be useful for applicants for addictology studies at the First Medical Faculty of Charles University in Prague.

Conferences

Urban drug policies should be stages of consensual actions, not battlefields

In 1987, the United Nations declared 26 June as the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. United Nations International Treaties define the borders for drug policies – also on a local level. The conference on ‘Urban drug policies in the globalised world’ is opening a pragmatic dialogue among those influencing and implementing drug policies in European and non-European cities.

Our staff in the news

Impacts of the new Criminal Code to be analysed only on the basis of research into marijuana markets

PRESS RELEASE, Centre for Addictology, 17 May 2010

On 1 January 2010, the new Criminal Code entered into force, together with the Government Regulation setting the quantity of drugs that is still seen as “bigger than small” by the legislation. Both of these legal regulations represent the first historical attempt in the Czech Republic to introduce a clear legislative differentiation between drugs on the basis of their danger for society and health, as is the case in the majority of EU countries. The Centre for Addictology is currently performing a research study assessing the impacts of this legislative amendment on the Czech illegal marijuana market. The first outcomes of the research can be expected at the beginning of 2011; the study itself will be completed after its second phase with a final analytical report in 2012.

Center for Addictology

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Centre for Addictology
Psychiatric Clinic, 1st Faculty of Medicine and General Teaching Hospital, Charles University, Prague
Ke Karlovu 11, 128 00 Prague 2, Czech Republic
mail: info@adiktologie.cz
tel: +420 224 96 5035 / fax: +420 224 96 5035

For media

Research and education is more beneficial than the war on drugs

PRESS RELEASE, 25th June 2010

In 1987, the United Nations declared 26 June as the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. The war on drugs using repression and a purely abstinence-oriented approach in treatment has a low efficiency and very high costs in the long term – the results of foreign studies show, and the correspondence of drug policies in the EU confirms, that those strategies giving at least equal importance to harm reduction lead to the lowest harm for society. Incongruity among the policies and research results from the area of drug policies can be solved only by sufficient interconnection of research and practice. In 2010, the Centre for Addictology is opening a new master’s degree programme concentrating on scientific and research work in the field of addictology that will educate future experts implementing drug policies.

Covered by media

Pill testing will not be available at dance festivals this summer

This year, ecstasy and other drugs will not be tested at Czech dance parties this summer for the first time in a number of years.
The Czech Drug Enforcement Agency has taken a negative standpoint, claiming that NGOs offering such harm reduction intervention are actually over-stepping the law, despite the fact there have been dangerous new drugs emerging on the dance scene recently, and sold under the label of ecstasy. The topic was subject to a TV discussion on the 1st public channel; the participants were Dr. Tomas Zabransky, Head of the Research and Developmental Unit of the Centre for Addictology, and plk. Jakub Frydrych, head of the Drug Enforcement Agency.

Addictology in the world - digest

The Vienna Declaration - criminalisation of drug users leads to the spread of HIV/AIDS

The 18th International Conference on HIV/AIDS was held in Vienna on 18th-23rd July. The conference participants signed a declaration that claims that the criminalisation of drug use leads to the spread of HIV/AIDS and asks for a full reorientation of drug policy.

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