Youth and drugs 2009

Autor	Průzkum Mládež a drogy 2009, A Kluby ČR, o.p.s.
Organisation	A Kluby ČR
Year	2009
Research type	research report
Annotation	The research about habit-forming drug use amoung the youth has been carried out by A clubs CZ every year since 1997. Archived data from previous researches are used for the purpose of comparison. This year, there were 1836 respondents at the age 11-20 years from 19 different schools from Brno participating in the research. The comparison with the research results from last years shows that the percentage of pupils using a habit-forming drug has been decreased (2006-39%, 2007 -34%, 2009 32,9%). The research results from 2009 confirm a trend of decreasing or stagnating habit-forming drug use amoung the youth ascertained by International European Research of students ESPAD. This year´s research showed that almost 79% of respondents get personal experience with habit-forming drug. There is 68, 1% of respondents at the age of 13 getting the first experience with cigarettes (93, 9% at the age of 15; 100% at the age of 20). The majority of respondents (82, 5%) come into contact with alcohol for the first time at the age of 14 (99% at the age of 16). The report for EU: Alcohol in Europe, 2006 (Anderson, P. and Baumberg, B.) ascertains similar data: „almost all students at the age 15-16 (< 90%) got their experience with alcohol, they came into contact with alcohol for the first time at the age of 12½ and got drank at the age of 14“(Anderson, Baumberg 2006:5).
Keywords	youth; habit-forming drugs use; light drugs; gambling
Research type	comparative research
Start date	1. 1. 2009
End date	31. 12. 2009
Obor	AQ Security and health protection
Email	akluby@akluby.cz
Availability	available by the researcher
Research location	A Kluby ČR, Starobrněnská 14, Brno 60200
Organisation	A Kluby ČR
Possible connection	Children and Youth Ratio in population Number of children and young people Expected numbers of children and young people Number of addressed clients by the Youth Information Centres network International youth cooperation