A Dynamic Team’s Ten Years on the Field. Report on the Decade-long Activity of Independence Zone Cover Image

Egy lendületes csapat tíz éve terepen. Beszámoló az Independence Zone évtizednyi tevékenységéről
A Dynamic Team’s Ten Years on the Field. Report on the Decade-long Activity of Independence Zone

Author(s): Csaba László Dégi, Renáta Botházi, Előd Balázs
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Presa Universitara Clujeana
Keywords: drug prevention activities, drug policy, youth festivals, fi eldwork

Summary/Abstract: In Romania, the abuse and consumption of drugs has increased in signifi cance as social illness, a problem which is fought with a lackluster arsenal. The diplomacy of the country is mainly employed with restrictive punishments; including the lack of medical treatment available for prisoners. The lack of services available in drug-rehabilitation and psychological de-toxication is making most of the users to turn away from distrusted sources. Furthermore, the efforts aimed at the containment of peril are under attack. The situation of efforts directed towards drug prevention is in the same conjecture. Hitherto the independence Zone, which is an initiative based in Cluj-Napoca, has performed it’s’ activities in the area which has been uppermentioned, for ten years. Focusing on the most dangerous group, the activity of IZ, since 2004, has taken place during the main festival that youths attend in Transylvania, subjecting its’ sharing of a multitude of prevention-eff orts as well as the results of fi eld work in order to provide useful guidance and council for pedagogues and main audience. In this article we present the main achievements since its ten year inception of the IZ, the prolifi c professional achievements, as well as highlighting a few of the insightful data from the research provided by the fi eldwork performed at several festivals.

  • Issue Year: 13/2015
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 101-118
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Hungarian