Gorm Grimm

Gorm Grimm (* 1941 ; † September 10, 2008 ) was a German addiction medicine specialist and a controversial pioneer of substitution treatment for drug addicts in Germany. He practiced as a doctor in Kiel until 2001 .

The general practitioner, who received his doctorate from the University of Marburg in 1974, began distributing the codeine preparation Remedacen in large quantities to heroin addicts in 1975 ; substitutes such as methadone were not yet approved. In doing so, he did not violate the Narcotics Act, but had difficulties with the Medical Association, which took the position that drugs containing codeine should not be prescribed for drug withdrawal. He has been charged several times for his prescribing practice, but has never been convicted. After Grimm had to temporarily close his practice because of a stomach disease and his patients had demonstrated, the Schleswig-Holstein state government allowed the allocation of remedies as part of substitution by a specially set up outpatient clinic.

Gorm Grimm was one of the founding members of the German Society for Drug and Addiction Medicine (now the German Society for Addiction Medicine ).

Fonts (selection)

The solution to the drug problem. Facts instead of dogmas! Scientifically proven answers to the questions of abstinence and drug treatment of drug addiction . Pflesser, Flintbek 1985, ISBN 3-923942-03-6 .
Discord through delusion of faith. Delusion - sense - belief. Psychiatric thoughts on the historical Jesus, the Bible authors, God and Christianity . Veris-Verlag, Kiel 1984, ISBN 3-924173-01-X .
Drugs versus drugs . Veris-Verlag, Kiel 1992, ISBN 3-924173-77-X .

Web links

Grimm obituary in the magazine Suchttherapie , PDF, accessed on August 8, 2015.
Grimm obituary of the Federal Association of Parents and Relatives for Accepting Drug Work , accessed on August 8, 2015.
Aids-Hilfe Grimm obituary , accessed on August 8, 2015.

Individual evidence

↑ Dissertation: A Contribution to the Pros and Cons of Transduodenal Sphincterotomy , University, Department of Human Medicine, Marburg 1974.
↑ Hans Harald Bräutigam: Heroin withdrawal by remedies. That it helps is irrelevant , Time , March 17, 1989, accessed on August 8, 2015.
↑ Hans Harald Bräutigam: A therapy in the dock , Die Zeit , August 25, 1989, accessed on August 8, 2015.
↑ Remis vom Guru , Der Spiegel 19/1992, accessed on August 8, 2015.
↑ Grimm obituary in the magazine Suchttherapie ( memento from November 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), PDF, accessed on August 8, 2015.

personal data
SURNAME	Grimm, Gorm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German addiction medicine
DATE OF BIRTH	1941
DATE OF DEATH	September 10, 2008

[1] Dissertation: A Contribution to the Pros and Cons of Transduodenal Sphincterotomy , University, Department of Human Medicine, Marburg 1974.

[2] Hans Harald Bräutigam: Heroin withdrawal by remedies. That it helps is irrelevant , Time , March 17, 1989, accessed on August 8, 2015.

[3] Hans Harald Bräutigam: A therapy in the dock , Die Zeit , August 25, 1989, accessed on August 8, 2015.

[4] Remis vom Guru , Der Spiegel 19/1992, accessed on August 8, 2015.

[5] Grimm obituary in the magazine Suchttherapie ( memento from November 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), PDF, accessed on August 8, 2015.