Medical Management

Dealing and coping with addictions has for centuries posed a major challenge for all societies. Socio-political, economic and ethical factors need to be taken into consideration alongside medical-therapeutic aspects if effective treatments are to be developed. We are actively committed to increasing social acceptance and the de-stigmatisation of both addicts and their families.

In our search for new and also unconventional solutions we see medicine not just as a science but above all as an art. Medical and therapeutic activities must involve more than the mere implementation of evidence-based scientific knowledge. The motivation of the individual, the aesthetics of interpersonal communication, the resumption of dialogue, the creation of an atmosphere that enables the genesis of something new are just as important for the success of treatment as conventional pharmacotherapeutic, psychotherapeutic and socially supportive measures and equally necessary innovative advances in these areas.

In addition to professional competence and dynamism our activities are also characterized by unqualified respect and human warmth. Our aim is to offer our patients perspectives for living a life of autonomy and also joy.

Prim. Univ. Prof. Dr. Michael Musalek
Head of Institute