Threat from Drugs

Attitudes to extent and significance of the drug problem in the Federal
Republic. Personal contact with drug problems. Concepts and state of
knowledge about the potential jeopardy of individual drugs and the
motives for the use of drugs. Attitude to the fight against drugs.

Topics: residential area within a city or outside; length of
residence; satisfaction with immediate residential environment;
characterization of buildings; type of impairment of residential
quality; frequency of watching TV news broadcasts and daily reading
selected daily newspapers; preferred social values and importance of
solution of selected social-political tasks (scale); interest in
politics; preference for a stronger government fight against use of
drugs; expected development of abuse of intoxicants; personal
acquaintance with users of intoxicants; use of intoxicants in the wider
circle of friends; significance of intoxicant problems in the Federal
Republic in comparison to other Western European as well as Eastern
European countries and the USA; major reasons for the use of drugs;
attitude to use of intoxicants in public and private situations
(scale); alcohol and nicotine as entry drugs; appropriate public
consciousness for the extent of the drug problem in the Federal
Republic; abuse of intoxicants as a problem of young people or of all
age groups; perceived source of financing for the use of intoxicants;
assessment of the possibilities to obtain drugs in the immediate
vicinity and knowledge of places to obtain drugs; perceived threat or
annoyance from the abuse of intoxicants; personal reactions to possible
dealing in drugs in one´s residential surroundings; personal
observations of use of drugs or dealing in drugs; assessment of the
jeopardy to health and danger of dependence from selected intoxicants;
control of use of intoxicants as a government task or private matter;
selected institutions, organizations and groups of persons who could
make a contribution to the fight against the drug problem; willingness
to support a national campaign against drug addiction; drug addiction
as an unavoidable evil of an affluent society; frequency of discussion
about intoxicants in social surroundings; time of last obtaining
information on the topic of drugs; judgement on selected measures to
fight drugs regarding their effectiveness and importance; attitude to
loosening confidentiality in banking or tax confidentiality to fight
dealing in drugs; preferred sentence for drug crimes; preference for
therapy before punishment; personal concern regarding selected
consequences of abuse of drugs; party most able to solve the intoxicant
problem; party preference (ballot procedure); personal influence on
family decisions and opportunities for complaint; religiousness; trade
union membership; self-assessment of social class.