Psychiatria pre prax 4/2009

Alcoholism and its impact on university graduates

The problem of substance related disorders among university-graduated patients are given minimal attention yet. Only nurses and doctors or medical students pay the awareness of these problems predominantly in that special group. The goal of our study is on epidemiological analysis of the observed group of university-graduated patients. The content of the study includes the results from few pilot studies done by the authors. The epidemiological data in the group of medical doctors and another university-graduated patients are compared. It seems, that dependence of highly educated people is a problem of whole society and these patients need special therapy as well.

Keywords: dependence, university graduated dependent patients, medical doctors