title: [Characteristics of knowledge and attitude to drugs and drug addiction in a population of addicted and non-addicted adolescents].
abstract: Governed by the idea of importance of the extent and character of being informed on drugs and narcomany the author of the study were reviewing a pattern sample of 50 drug-addicts while patients of the Centre for Treatment of Drug-Addiction with the Psychiatric Clinic of the Clinic Centre in Sarajevo. The control group was composed of fifty pupils of secondary schools (also-from district of Sarajevo) who were positively determined of never having had any experience of drugs. The results of the study evidently distinguish between the experimental and the control groups, both in respect of sources and way of informing as well in certain viewpoints and opinions in its prevention etc. The author think that the very existence of obtained discrepancies in the said aspects speaks enough for itself, binding upon us to take them into account in all subsequent preventional activities and plannings.
authors.affiliation: Psihijatrijska klinika, Klinicki centar Sarajevo.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Dukanović
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001290:Attitude; D017522:Bosnia and Herzegovina; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D008297:Male; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology*