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Psychosocial interventions in substitution treatment

Student's Alerts

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Addictological Clinic – a new service for university students and employees

The Addictological Clinic is a clinical department of the Centre for Addictology. It primarily serves university students and employees whose health and social situation is currently or developmentally endangered by drug use issues and non-substance addictions. The outpatient addictological clinic is on the premises of the Centre for Addictology at the Psychiatric Clinic of the 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague.

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

Global Conference on Methamphetamine: Science, Strategy, and Response

Welcome to the 2008 Global Conference on Methamphetamine: Science, Strategy, and Response. Our primary objective is to provide an arena for the world's preeminent scientists, leaders, and professionals working on issues related to methamphetamine to gather to discuss the intersection between methamphetamine use, public health, law enforcement, and civil society.

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Summer Institute on Alcohol, Drugs, and Addiction in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Courses, seminars, and dialogues in Amsterdam on theories and concepts as they have been developed in the field of addiction studies. The Summer Institute on Addiction is an intensive two-week summer programme which focuses on the study of addiction across cultures and is taught by an international teaching team.

Center for Addictology

Never Say Never: Expectations of the Staff of Czech Therapeutic Communities vs. The Process of Behavioural Change of Residents

Therapeutic communities (TCs) have beena specific and accepted type of treatment of drug users with dependent behaviour for more than 40 years . The first therapeutic community was established in the Czech Republic in 1991 shortly after the change of political regime, whereas the majority of the 15 TCs that currently exist appeared in the second half of the 1990s. Despite this, TCs are, from the recent point of view mainly of professionals but also of a growing part of the lay public, perceived as a fully accepted treatment modality whose existence finally achieved its legitimacy in law in 2006. In spite of the relatively short history of TCs in the Czech Republic, their staff have had to cope with an array of changes in their expectations, as well as in the profiles of their clients. This paper aims to discuss significant changes in the expectations of TCs’ professionals in relation to: a) the main goal of their work with drug users; b) motivation of drug users when entering treatment programmes in TCs, and c) the outcomes of their work with residents. Additionally, the most important changes in the profiles of TCs’ clients, which, to a certain extent, determine the above-mentioned changes in the expectations of TCs’ staff, are reviewed. To get an understanding of the observed changes in the expectations of TCs’ professionals, the paper aims to explain them within a broader context of two possible explanatory frameworks: 1) a cycle of change, and 2) the phases and processes of change of an individual in a TC as perceived by its residents.

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National conference on lifelong learning in Addictology

This conference is intended for all professionals involved with the idea of lifelong learning of experts in the field of Addictology.

Covered by media

Sport does not prevent drug use

29. 3. 2006 – Metro newspapers, p. 15

Addictology in the world - digest

Heavy Drinking Linked to Mortality Risk

Men who consume more alcohol on drinking days are at increased risk of death even if their average amount of alcohol over time isn't excessive, according to researchers who said that drinking quantity and frequency influence mortality more than average consumption over time.

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