The Czech Republic Annual Report 2010 Drug ... - Drogy-info.cz
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elation to the sale of drugs (mainly cannabinoids and methamphetamine) in the border areas (Národní protidrogová<br />
centrála SKPV Policie ČR, 2011b); see also the chapter on <strong>Drug</strong> Markets (p. 131).<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>info</strong>rmation collected by means of an e-mail and telephone survey on drug tourism conducted by the National<br />
Focal Point among low-threshold programmes for drug users (drop-in centres and outreach programmes) in August<br />
2011 indicates that Slovaks are the foreign nationals who most commonly maintain contact with such services.<br />
Russian-speaking clients comprise a relatively large client group too. As reported by one of Prague’s drop-in centres,<br />
there has been a year-on-year rise in the number of foreigners seeking their services, and there is a clear demand<br />
for substitution, detoxification, and long-term psychiatric and psychotherapeutic treatment. As far as the availability of<br />
the services is concerned, the absence of health insurance among foreigners indicated for a specific type of<br />
treatment intervention poses a problem. <strong>The</strong> outreach programmes that were interviewed added that Prague, or<br />
sometimes also Karlovy Vary, is the main destination (Národní monitorovací středisko pro drogy a drogové<br />
závislosti, 2011f).<br />
On the basis of a question aimed at this specific item of <strong>info</strong>rmation, it was found that foreigners made up 1,011 out<br />
of 12,720 individuals (7.9%) treated at the Prague sobering-up station in the Na Bulovce University Hospital in <strong>2010</strong>.<br />
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