Study title

Attitude to intoxicants and personal use of drugs among young people. Topics: 1. Oral interview (interview data): preferred leisure activity; preferred place for the leisure activity; judgement on education or employment demands; self-assessment of condition of health; name and frequency of sleeping pills, pain-killers, stimulants, tranquilizers, vitamins and intoxicants already used; assessment of general development of use of intoxicants among young people; relationship with father and mother; inter-generation conflicts; type of coping with one´s own problems; reference persons; feeling oneself not understood; detailed information on type and extent of beverage consumption; frequency of alcohol excesses; exact information on use of alcohol on the last workday and last weekend; partner and place of use of alcohol; age at first as well as at regular use of cigarettes; reason for not smoking; type and extent of current use of cigarettes; reasons for smoking; degree of familiarity with selected intoxicants; willingness to try selected intoxicants; willingness to use heroin and hashish; attitudes to use of intoxicants (scale); contacts with users of intoxicants and personal use of intoxicants; (with non-users: reasons for non-use and inclination to use); personal motives for use of intoxicants; current use of intoxicants; motives for discontinuing use of intoxicants; characterization of one´s own social conditions; satisfaction with current situation in life and general attitudes (scale); fear of the future (scale); party preference; nationality. Also encoded was: weekday of interview. 2. Written survey (filled out after conclusion of the oral survey and sent to the institute by mail; so-called ´feeling data´): in the form of 11 detailed descriptions situations are described to which the respondent was to note for each whether he can imagine himself in this situation, has already personally felt it once, and what thoughts he has developed regarding it....