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Prof. Thomas F. Babor answer the question of why PhD study in addictology at the 1st Faculty of Medicine is unique and what are its strengths. 

You can see the whole interview in the two links bellow.

BACKGROUND

The course Prevention of Harmful Substance Use and Addiction Treatment is an integral and mandatory part of postgraduate medical education in the Czech Republic. Its aim is to acquire the necessary knowledge, skills and...

Abstract

Background: Addictology is a transdisciplinary field dealing with the treatment andprevention of addictions. As yet the field does not have a document describing the competencies of graduates of its dedicated academic programme...

The National Conference on Illegal Addictive Substances 2021 was organized by the Secretariat of the Government Council for the Coordination of Drug Policy - the Drug Policy Department of the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic...

INTRODUCTION:

The Czech Republic records one of the highest prevalence levels of obesity in comparison to other European and world countries. The present study aims to fill a gap in the use of tools in research of food addiction (FA)...

BACKGROUND: In December 2019, a severe acute respiratory syndrome caused by coronavirus 2 (SARS- CoV-2 or COVID-19) broke out in China. The virus spread rapidly throughout the country and around the globe. In an effort to prevent the spread...

BACKGROUND: Characterising flavours are an important marketing tool for the tobacco industry. Following the European Tobacco Products Directive, the sales of menthol cigarettes in all EU Member States, including the Czech Republic, were...

BACKGROUND: The Czech Republic has a long tradition of methamphetamine use. Less is known about the circumstances of initiation into its use at the level of individual users. The aim of the research was to analyse the biographic burden...

In the 1990s, new addiction services began to emerge that had a shortage of appropriately qualified and trained practitioners. This impulse led to the establishment of the health profession of an ADDICTOLOGIST in the Czech Republic. In the...

Thomas F. Babor is a renowned researcher and professor of Public Health Studies at the University of Connecticut and author of more than 15 books and the editor of Publishing Addiction Science. In the late 1980s, Prof. Babor was one of the...

The EU Strategy 2021-2025 puts further emphasis on QS and evidence-based interventions.

Yet, the extent and ways in which QS are implemented in daily practices of drug prevention, treatment and harm reduction in the EU varies substantially...

This issue of the bulletin Focused was prepared on the basis of the annual report on the 2019 drug situation in the Czech Republic: MRAVČÍK, V., CHOMYNOVÁ, P., GROHMANNOVÁ, K., JANÍKOVÁ, B., ČERNÍKOVÁ, T., ROUS, Z., CIBULKA, J., FIDESOVÁ, H...

EDITORIAL

GAVUROVÁ B.
The Increasing Importance of Prevention Programmes in Health Policy

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

GASHKARIMOV, V., URITSKY, B., TUKHVATULLINA, D., EFREMOV, I., ASADULLIN, A.
Relationship between Frequency of Energy Drink...

Presenters Michal Miovsky and Anna Volfova discuss their implementation of learning outcomes in their addiction education program at Charles University in Prague.