- AUSTRIA WIEN
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- Co-ordinator drugs: PETER HACKER
- Address:
- Drogenkoordination Wien
- Friedrich Schmidt-Platz 3
- 1080 Wien
- Phone: +43-(0)1-4000.82301
- Fax: +43-(0)1-4000.99.82301
- DROGENAMBULANZ DER WIENER
UNIVERSITÄTSKLINIK FÜR PSYCHIATRIE
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- The centre employs 17 professionals of which 4
doctors, 4 psychiatrists, 4 nurses, 1 psychologist, 2 social workers, 1 administrator and
a manager.
- Treatment philosophy is based upon harm reduction
offering maintenance programs. The average dose of methadone prescribed is 90 mg.
- Currently the centre treats 800 patients, no
limitation to the number of patients. The waiting list takes months. Treatment duration
lasts for months.
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- The centre offers:
- - medical care
- - social assistance
- - psychiatric care
- - psycho-therapy
- - oral Morphine substitution
- - special target group: pregnant addicts, HIV/Aids
patients
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- The centre demands:
- - daily attendance
- - urine checks
- - mandatory meetings with social work
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- Non-attendance and violence can get patient
expelled from treatment.
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- If patient want to enter the program on a
long-term basis he/she has to belong to one of the target groups.
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- Procedures for taking patient for a short time:
- The centre should be informed beforehand by
letter.
- The information necessary is:
- - identity
- - dose and period for which methadone is requested
- - references where information can be checked
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- When visiting the patient has to bring a letter
from his doctor.
- The centre charges the provision of methadone to
its own rates.
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- Adress
- Währinger Gürtel 18 - 20
- 1090 Wien
- Phone: +43-(0)1-40400.3543
- Fax: +43-(0)1-40400.3552
- Contact: Dr. G. FISCHER
- E-mail: drogenambulanz@akh-wien.ac.at
- Web site: http://www.kco.at/drogen
- Hours of opening: from 8.00 till 16.00 hours