[On the therapy and rebabilitation of juvenile drug addits in a special hospital (author's transl)].

A successful therapy of drug-dependents can only be carried out in special facilities providing intensive inter-disciplinary care. In the Hochstadt district hospital (Bezirksklinik Hochstadt) treatment encompasses detoxication, weaning and after-care. The goal of the therapy is the permanent abstinence of the patient, finding of his identity, treatment of his somatic and psychic disturbances and diseases as well as the learning of techniques enabling him to resist addiction producing substances after his discharge from hospital, and his social re-integration. The methods used are group-therapy, as a behavioural therapy with psychodynamic aspects, ergotherapy and physiotherapy as well as socio-therapeutic measures. The therapy has a high success rate. Catamnestic studies show that 50% of the patients were still abstinent one year after their date of discharge.