[Long-term therapy of juvenile drug addicts in the hospital as shown at the Erlenhof therapeutic facility].

The therapeutic community is the most important part of a multimodality treatment program for narcotic addicts. In Upper Austria, the Therapiestation Erlenhof was founded in 1981, being the third community of this kind in Austria. The therapeutic concept stresses four determinants: community life, work, leisure time, group psychotherapy. First results are reported. The importance of ideological issues and problems of aftercare are discussed.