Professional paper

Availability, hazard and reasons for opiates abuse in the study environment – the judgements of students from Pula

Mirjana Radetić - Paić ; "Juraj Dobrila" University in Pula
Matija Medaković

Abstract

The aim of this research was to get an insight into the judgements of students of junior (N = 49) and senior (N = 59) years of Teacher Training College at the ‘’Juraj Dobrila’’ University in Pula on the availability, hazards and reasons for opiates abuse in their study environment. The intention was to recognize the gravity of the problem and to plan the appropriate prevention.
The results show that junior year students believe that alcohol is accessible and neither harmful nor helpful. The reasons for their opiates abuse are boredom and experimentation. They claim that their colleagues often use marijuana which is, according to their opinion, neither harmful nor helpful.
The scientific and practical contribution of this work is that it provides the guidelines for early detection of opiates abuse among students.

Keywords

opiates abuse; the availability; hazards and reasons for opiates abuse; students; Pula

Hrčak ID:

82325

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/82325

Publication date:

30.9.2011.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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