Introduction --;Method --;Treatment Centres --;Admission Data --;Discharge Data --;Six-Month Follow-Up --;Eighteen-Month Follow-Up --;Data from Health and Pension Insurance Institutes --;Reliability and Validity of Data --;Changes over the Course of the Study --;Patients' Attitudes to and Experiences of Treatment --;Patient Variables as Prognostic Factors --;Treatment Variables --;Indication --;Other Factors Influencing Outcome --;Discussion --;References --;Appendices --;Subject Index.
For out-patient treatment there are about 450 special addiction counselling and treatment centres, out-patient facilities available at local health authorities and university hospitals and, further to all this, there are thousands of self-help groups of various kinds.