THE OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT FOR ADDICTED PA TIENTS AND ITS FUNCTION BETWEEN PRIMARY HEALTH-CARE AND INDOOR TREATMENT

With this text we would like to point out some frequent problems in tr eating addicted patients in primary health care. We describe our own m odel of an addiction outpatient department at the Nervenklinik of Muni ch University. This is followed by informations about our patients and by a short view on empirical data from our related scientific work. F inally we try to give a survey over advantages and disadvantages of th is concept.