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3.4 Indicated prevention
Indicated primary prevention involves individual work with at-risk individuals, their families, and the close community.
These individuals exhibit early signs of substance use but do not meet the criteria for problem drug use and
dependency. In the Czech Republic, indicated prevention is carried out by institutions established by the national,
regional, or local authorities (including pedagogical and psychological counselling centres, child and family
counselling centres, institutions for juvenile delinquents and children with behavioural disorders, rehabilitation
institutions, and educational care centres) as well as non-governmental organisations (e.g. low-threshold facilities for
children and young people – see above).
For projects pertaining to early assessment and intervention tools and methodologies see the 2009 Annual Report.
3.5 Media Campaigns, Conferences, and Other Activities with Media Response
In November 2010, the seventh annual conference on the primary prevention of risk behaviour, entitled Education
and Professionalism in Primary Prevention, was held 50 . The conference topics corresponded with the VYNSPI
nationwide project. Also presented at the conference was a monograph entitled Primary Prevention of Risk
Behaviour within the School System 51 , which outlines the basic concepts of the primary prevention of risk behaviour
applied in the country. The publication acquaints readers with the basic topics and concepts of primary prevention in
an integrated and structured manner (Miovský et al. 2010).
At the end of September and the beginning of October 2010, a conference was held in Prague titled Urban Drug
Policies in the Globalised World, during which the interactive workshop Primary Prevention at the Urban Level was
also organised. The conference was promoted by posters placed on municipal advertising spaces and in the Prague
metro 52 .
Figure 3-1: Posters placed in Prague in September and October 2010 highlighting the conference Urban Drug Policies in
the Globalised World
The SANANIM civic association, in collaboration with the Society for Addictive Diseases of the J. E. Purkyně Czech
Medical Association, organised a conference entitled Youth and Drugs 2010 on 20–21 April 2010. The topic of the
conference was to work with juvenile clients from the perspectives of addictology, psychotherapy, and social
education 53 .
From May to October 2011, there was an exhibition in the Prague Police Museum marking the 20th anniversary of
the founding of the National Drug Headquarters. At the opening ceremony, awards were handed over to students of
schools of applied arts who participated in a nationwide competition for the best anti-drug poster, entitled In the Right
Direction 54 .
In 2010 the ZKUS civic association announced a photography competition Take a Picture of Your Drug intended
targeted students of elementary and secondary schools 55 , to highlight positive alternatives to drug use. The
50
http://www.pprch.cz/ (2011-08-23)
51
http://www.adiktologie.cz/cz/articles/17/Monografie (2011-08-23)
52
http://www.urbandrugpolicy.com/cz/ (2011-08-23)
53
http://konference.sananim.cz/ (2011-08-23)
54
http://www.policie.cz/clanek/soutez-a-vystava-v-jeden-den.aspx (2011-08-23)
55
http://www.zkus.org/index.phpoption=com_content&task=view&id=66&Itemid=1 (2011-08-23)
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