Anton Proksch Institute

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Anton Proksch Institute Vienna

The Anton Proksch Institute is a therapy center for the treatment of addictions in the 23rd Viennese district of Liesing .

Services

At the largest European addiction clinic, in addition to addiction to medication , alcohol and other drugs , so-called non-substance-related addictions such as gambling addiction , computer addiction (chat addiction , online games, internet addiction etc.) or shopping addiction are treated here . Furthermore, the Anton Proksch Institute offers a comprehensive training program for all areas related to addiction and conducts basic and accompanying research in cooperation with other research institutions.

history

In 1954, at the instigation of university professor Dr. Hans Hoff (1897–1969), the "Drinking Sanatorium Association" was founded, to which, in addition to doctors from the Vienna University Clinic for Psychiatry and Neurology, politicians from all camps and representatives of the Catholic Church belonged. At the beginning of 1956, Hans Hoff's application to the Main Association of Austrian Social Insurance for reimbursement of costs for withdrawal treatment was rejected on the grounds that alcoholism was not an illness, but a weak will. However, Hoff was able to win the then Minister of Social Affairs Anton Proksch (1897–1975) for his idea, under whose patronage the Kalksburg Foundation was established on December 5, 1956, at which the then Archbishop of Vienna, Franz König, among others (1905–2004), and the then mayor of Vienna Franz Jonas (1899–1974) were involved. On January 17, 1961, the Kalksburg convalescent home at Mackgasse 7-11 with 65 beds and 19 employees (two doctors, four nurses) was opened and officially opened in May 1961 by Federal President Adolf Schärf (1890-1965). In 1975, after the death of Anton Proksch, the convalescent home was renamed "Anton Proksch Institute".

From 1972 the Anton Proksch Institute was the location of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Addiction Research founded by contract with the Ludwig Boltzmann Society . This was financed by government grants, private funds and funding for research projects. It was closed at the end of December 2009 on the occasion of the retirement of its manager Alfred Springer .

Furnishing

The institute has around 280 beds. About 220 people are employed. In addition to the therapy center for alcohol and drug addicts in Kalksburg, the drug withdrawal station in Kalksburg and the long-term therapy center for drug addicts in Mödling (Husarentempelgasse 3), which opened in 1980, there are three outpatient clinics in Vienna and four addiction counseling centers in Lower Austria with around 40,000 contacts per year.

Outpatient clinics and addiction counseling consist of:

  • 5th district (Wiedner Hauptstraße 105, main clinic of the Anton Proksch Institute)
  • 3rd district (Radetzkystraße 31/6, "Treffpunkt" - drug advice and preliminary care, special outpatient department for substitution)
  • 23rd district (Gräfin-Zichy-Straße 6, women's clinic)
  • Baden (addiction counseling Baden)
  • Mödling (addiction counseling Mödling)
  • Neunkirchen (addiction counseling Neunkirchen)
  • Wiener Neustadt (addiction counseling Wr. Neustadt)

literature

  • G (ünther) Pernhaupt : 5 years drug therapy in Kalksburg. Forensic presentation Wednesday, April 16, 1980 . Department of Forensic Psychiatry, Vienna 1980, OBV .
  • Charlotte Schmekal: Consideration of the drug station A (nton) P (roksch) I (nstitut) Mödling in relation to the possibility of institutional family therapy . Thesis. Federal Academy for Social Work , Vienna 1990, OBV .
  • Michael Haberzettl: Development of drug therapy in Vienna with a focus on the history of the Vienna General Hospital's drug outpatient department from 1966 to 1993 . Thesis. University of Vienna, Vienna 2011. - Full text online (PDF; 3 MB) .

Web links

Commons : Anton-Proksch-Institut Stiftung Genesungsheim Kalksburg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Addiction Research at the Anton Proksch Institute, (...). History and job profile . ( Memento of August 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), as of February 20, 2003, accessed on July 2, 2017.
  2. ^ Springer-Verlag GmbH: Neurology. A well-earned institution retires  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: springermedizin.at , October 29, 2009, accessed on July 2, 2017.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.springermedizin.at  
  3. ↑ Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft - Austrian Association for the Promotion of Scientific Research: LBI for Addiction Research  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: lbg.ac.at , 2017, accessed on July 2, 2017.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.lbg.ac.at  
  4. ↑ Drug station Vorderbrühl breaks new ground in therapy. Exdrugs help patients . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna August 2, 1980, p. 8 , Mitte ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  5. ↑ Weblink: http://www.antonprokschinstitut.at

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 11 ″  N , 16 ° 14 ′ 46 ″  E