EURO HEALTH Podcast

Why do people start smoking in these days, when it is no longer popular as in the past? What are the main reasons why people start smoking? Should we remove nicotine from society, or it would be replaced with something else or worse? Is it possible to achieve nicotine free world? How would society respond to the ban on tobacco products?

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Dr Ernest Groman is from Vienna, Austria, and he was born in 1969. He completed his medical school studies 1997. Already at this time dr Groman was very interested in nicotine dependence and smoking cessation and he has since devoted the majority of his time to offering smoking cessation treatments at many different parts of the Austria society.

In the past, he worked for the Public Health Center (Institute of Social Medicine of the University of Vienna). Since 2002, he has been involved in the development and implementation of smoking cessation programs in Lower Austria. 

He is currently the Scientific Director of the Nicotine Institute in Vienna. The Nicotine Institute was founded in 1998 to reduce the burden of tobacco diseases. The institute is devoted to reducing the harm from tobacco dependence, and it focuses on three areas of tobacco prevention: diagnosis, treatment, and information to the public and professional group. 

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Dr Groman visited Prague because of his participation in a roundtable on ‘Reducing Cigarette Addiction and Preventing cancer in the Czech and European context’. As studies say, cigarette smoking causes 30% of the cancer. So why do people start smoking today, when cigarettes are no longer popular or visible, as in the past, and when human is most prone to addiction to smoking? According to the statement of Dr Groman, reaching a world without nicotine is not possible, but we can replace it with other nicotine-containing products. According to Swedish studies, nicotine-containing products supplanting cigarettes could save many lives. Replacing the strict rhetoric of smoking bans could be more effective in a future and prevent black market.

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Euro Health Podcast focuses on European health policy by giving voice to leading experts. The goal is to bring complex and evidence-based information, which could lead to a better Europe. Podcast is hosted by Tomáš Jirsa and Jan Klusáček. 

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How global pandemic and upcomming economic crisis impacts mental health? How to work with insecurity? Which mental disorders are increasing? Is psychiatry care in The Czech Republic suffitient and prepared for situations like global pandemic? What is “Psychedelic Europe”about? Are psychedelic substances a way forward in mental health treatments? What are the biggest challenges for the recognition of psychedelic substances as a form of innovative health treatment? What is community mental health care?  

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Prof. MUDr. Jiří Horáček is a Professor of Psychiatry at the 3rd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. He holds a degree in psychiatry and psychotherapy. He is currently the Deputy Director of the National Institute of Mental Health in the Czech Republic.

Prof. Jiří Horáček has been actively involved in 40 scientific research projects. He is a strong advocate for the use of innovative methods in the treatment of mental illnesses, and he speaks in favor of the use of psychedelic substances in mental health treatment.  

His research activities involve the use of brain imaging (PET, fMRI and qEEG) in the fields of schizophrenia, depression and OCD, psychiatric genetics, and the animal modeling of mental disorders. He is both the editor of several books and the author of more than 100 scientific articles. Prof. Jiří Horáček has received several national and international psychiatric awards from the International Pharmaco-EEG Society (Werner Hermann Memorial Award), the Czech Neuropsychopharmacological Society and ECNS-ISNIP.  In his productive career he has been awarded the Senior Research Fellow of the Bedfordshire CMHR in association with the University of Cambridge. He was also the President of the Czech Neuropsychopharmacological Society (2015-2017).    

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We are in the middle of global pandemic, things have dramatically changed and COVID-19 pandemic is being followed by a mental health crisis. Presence of anxiety disorders and depressions increased 3 times. There is a general agreement amongst key experts and scientists who say that the number of individuals facing mental health problems is steadily increasing as a fallout to the coronavirus pandemic. Research also shows, that reactions on special situation like this is dependent on different psychological flexibility. We also talked about promissing innovative ways to treat mental illnesses such as using psychedelic substances. There is new association “Psychedelic Europe” that has been established in Brussels which aims to advocate for an EU-wide regulatory framework that promotes medicinal use of psychedelic substances to the benefit of patients, stimulate research, harmonize rules on the market, and secure a safe and predictable environment for the industry and entrepreneurs in Europe.

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Which EU member states have rational approach towards drugs and addiction policy? Is it possible to eradicate addictions? What is Germany’s National Drugs and Addictions Policy about? Should there be a coherent and comprehensive European approach towards drugs and addictions? 

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Heino Stöver is a social scientist, PhD and Professor of Social Scientific Addiction Research at the Faculty of Health and Social Work of the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences in Germany.He is the president of the national umbrella organization working on harm reduction for drug users and since 2009 he has also been the director of the “Institute of Addiction Research”. 

Prof. Heino Stöver’s main fields of research and project development expertise are health promotion for vulnerable and marginalized groups, drug services, and related health aspects such as the potential of e-cigarettes and drug dependence. 

He has also worked as a consultant for the European Commission (EC), United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), World Health Organization (WHO), European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA).

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In today’s episode we will focus on how Germany’s policy on drugs and addictions have evolved over time, and whether the current approach towards addictions could be replicated across the European Union to create a more harmonized policy.
We talked about the best way forward, and how to ensure that European citizens in all the EU Member States are given equal opportunities to address their addictive behaviors in rational ways.

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The long-awaited Episode 1 of the EURO HEALTH  Podcast whose guest was a leading Czech authority on drug use, Mgr. Jindřich Vobořil, is out! 

The Health Podcast is a brand new initiative which aims to provide expert opinions on complex matters related to the health sector and give our listeners different perspectives than the ones commonly presented through mainstream media. 

The topic of Episode 1 is Phenomena of harm reduction: a way to address addictions.

 Addictions are sweeping the world like a disease which is only underlined by the fact that alcohol and tobacco, only, caused more than double the deaths last year than COVID-19 caused since its outbreak. The COVID-19 itself is likely to increase this addiction and the main question is, how do we cope with increasing addictions to deadly substances. 

Join us and Mr. Vobořil in a valuable discussion where we delve into the possible solutions to this problem as well as the controversial opinions of some of the decision-makers in Brussel.

 EURO HEALT Podcast is hosted by Tomáš Jirsa and Jan Klusáček.