Abstrakt
The undergraduate bachelor's study programme in addictology in the Czech Republic has existed since 2005. It was the logical consequence of the former development of education and training programmes within the 1990s initiated by some NGOs in the Czech Republic and had links to a long-term process that started at the beginning of the 1960s (with its historical roots in the period between World Wars I and II).
The academic addictology programme consists of full undergraduate education at the bachelor's and master's degree levels and, more recently, a doctoral (Ph.D.) degree. This paper presents a comprehensive model describing the process by which this fully independent health profession of addictology was created with the aid of specific Czech legislation.
To describe and introduce the original Prague model we used the context of learning outcomes and existing policy documents approved by professional societies in the Czech Republic. The developmental process involved a movement from an interdisciplinary approach to a transdisciplinary perspective.
The aim of addictology is not to replace other professions but to work with them in unison and to promote the integration of research findings and clinical approaches and to be integrated into the wider concept of drug policy on the national and international levels.