Attitudes of undergraduates entering the first year of study in the Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové towards drugs of abuse

Hana Holubičková, Michael Vanžura, Peter Višňovský (visnovsk@faf.cuni.cz)

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Pharmacy, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic

Summary

The authors investigated a group of 150 students entering the first year of Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové, Charles University in Prague. Based on an anonymous standard questionnaire, the attitudes towards the use of substances of addiction and experience with them were evaluated in 120 women and 30 men. The most frequently used substance was marihuana (taken at least once by 30 % of the investigated group). Less frequently other drugs and medicaments (most of them anxiolytics and hypnosedatives) were given. No experience was noted in case of heroin or toluene. However, 70 % of the questionned did not take any drug in the past time and 47.3 % supposed not to take any substance of abuse in the future.