Drop In centre
A With spreading of street drug problem and lack of drop in centres in Prague, the founder of
the Drop In centre – and the same name foundation started the project of the
service mobile street.
B In general, this is the way how to simplify the contact between the
therapeutic and preventative centre on one side and “drug population” on the
other. Similar projects have been in existence in Western
Europe and in the world for many years. The basis is to ensure the
conditions for everyday route around the town. This route is a circle that
connects places where the high-risk drug population is present. They can be so
called “drug flats” or people who hide in the streets – people who use drugs intravenously and therefore always need
clean syringes and needles. Whole
groups of people live in the flats, their ages range from children to middle
age. These people get to wide scale of difficult life situations, for example
criminal prosecution, pregnancy of
mother-users, and taking away of children…
C In so called drug flats, drugs are often also produced and sold.
Therefore even beginner users often visit them. They are the only backgrounds
for these stricken people. In their
situation they make money in different ways. Girls often prostitute themselves
for money or drugs, boys steal things, and some of them produce and sell drugs
(mostly pervitin). Some of them misuse social benefits and supports – namely
benefits for children and for their part disability. They do not want to see a
doctor, even in the case of serious harm to health. They do not trust
authorities and the police. They solve everything in their community. They are
often victims of street violence.
D They use non-sterile syringes and besides share them. The program
prevents them from doing namely this. However this is not the only task. Used
needles are collected and in a secure way they are disposed of. This is also
part of HIV prevention. We also make new contacts with drug population, which
increases therapeutic influence on these people. And the contacts already made
are getting deeper. In general, it means extending the activities of Drop In
streetworkers. The way to make contact is active searching for endangered
persons in the street. Among our clients there are also many Roma people and
foreigners. Age of clients is not defined, but accent is put on the category of
teenagers.
E During the year we provide information for visitors of big cultural
actions about non-alcohol substances like Cannabis, MDMA, GHB, volatile substances like Poppers,
pervitin, LSD etc. These substances are sometimes called dancing or
recreational drugs. Some young people get into touch with the psychotropic
substances at these actions for the first time. Even experienced users do no
know all risks and we can influence them in this way.
intravenously – nitrožilně
prosecution – stíhání
stricken – postižený,
zasažený
syringe – injekce
volatile - těkavý
1) Read the article and match each of the headings to a paragraph.
1 Criminal and asocial
behaviour of drug users
2 Introduction
3 Recreational drugs
4 How does the program
help?
5 Tour round the “drug
flats”
2) Read the article again and answer the questions.
1 What is the text about?
2 What does the Drop In
centre do? How does the Drop In centre help? Who does it cooperate with?
3 What are typical problems
of its clients?
4 What is typical negative
behaviour of drug consumers?
5 Name the recreational and
dancing drugs.
3) Explain the following words.
1 preventative centre
2 pregnancy
3 social benefit
4 street violence
5 streetworker
Who can become a drug
consumer? How are drugs divided? What are the symptoms of intoxication?
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