Centre for Treatment of Drug Dependencies

Slovak language

Address: Centrum pre liecbu drogových závislostí,   Hranicná 2, POBox 51, 82799 Bratislava     Slovak Republic, Europe Tel: +421-7-53417467   +421-7-53417464   Fax: +421-7-53417475      e-mail: idz@drogy.sk , official e-mail: cpldz@cpldz.sk

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Mission | Attitude   | Character of Institution | Programs
self-discipline - responsibility - humanity-   achievement  

Hranicna Street	Sanatorium Jaskový rad	relax - fitness centre	Therapeutic community	excursion "drog-stop-štýl"	vaccination and testing of infectious diseases

MISSION

An assistance to all who have substance related problems and to those who are suffering from different types of addictions. The goal is to improve the health of our clients, to increase the quality of their life as well as to prolong it. The same accent is given by us on the parallel goal, support and promotion of healthy life style. We are introducing to our praxis the measures, which in the connection with drug use are reducing the risks of spreading of infectious diseases, criminal behavior and other negative phenomena in the community.

ATTITUDE

Our care is in the principle for the people who need it and wish to get it, and not for those who are refusing it. The Centre does not perform repressive functions. We are offering our services on the principle of voluntary admissions. We are respecting the human rights of our clients and we are preferring the civic principle. We are against all forms of discrimination and so called labeling of our clientele. Our institution is multimodal, which means, that it is providing different types of programs. We are offering so called low threshold services, which are accessible to everybody, but also the services with higher treshold, which could be used only after the fullfilement of specified preconditions.

CHARACTER OF INSTITUTION

The centre is public, not for profit, health institution. It is not directly financed from the state budget, but has to earn its money for the functioning in the conditions of the market ecnomy. So the majority of the programs provided by the centre are the programs paid by health insurance companies or by direct payments from client. We wellcome sponzorships either from the institutions or from the individuals. Cooperation with local city councils as well as with non-governmental organizations is a part of our functioning.

PROGRAMS

The Centre for Treatment of Drug Dependencies, Hranicna 2, Bratislava provides highly specialized services in 12 programs. It has about half of the hundred full-time employees and quarter of hundred part-time workers. The personnel is formed by physicians - specialists in psychiatry, interns, pediatricians, psychologists, social workers special pedagogists. The majority of our employees who are in contact with our clients has got a psychotherapeutic training. We have an intensive cooperation with massmedia. We cooperate with many institutions of the similar origin in abroad. Our employees attend besides in-service training many study tours, congresses and conferences all over the world. There are not only the clients from Slovakia, but also from abroad. CTDD is located in two renovated buildings in the second and the third district of Bratislava. We are implementing the most modern methods in counseling, prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and resocialization for drug users and people with drug, alcohol and other addictions. Personal and technical equipment of the center has created the conditions for scientific research.

Brief description of several programs:

• Primary prevention program is targeted at the students of higher classes in the primary and secondary schools. The intention is to provide the youngsters with the most accurate and non-biased information on the risks of drug taking.
• Needle-exchange program for drug users. It serves to prevent a transmission of blood/borne infections such as HIV, viruses of hepatitis B and C and the others. We are offering the continuation of care in treatment programs. This is the program, where is the most emphasis put on the public health aspect.
• The program of out/patient detoxification - treatment for heroin, alcohol and to other substances addicted people with the aim to achieve drug-free status. The didactoterapy - the motivational sessions are an important part of it.
• Patients can be detoxified at the ward in CTDD. This encompasses, besides medication, psychotherapy, artetherapy, relaxation and fitness centre.
• Three-months residential treatment which is located in our dependance at Jaskovy rad. The emphasis is put on psychotherapeutic and regiment elements of treatment processes.
• CTDD enables participation at the broad spectrum of out-patient activities for alcohol-abstainers: "A/klub", "A-2M", "KBM", "JAS-klub".
• Recreational program: "DROG-STOP-STYLE", club and group evening sessions intended for treatment and resocialization of people abstaining from drugs.
• Out-patient program to assist gamblers. If it is necessary a residential treatment is also available.
• Program counseling, vaccination and care for physical ailments associated with drug use - HIV/AIDS, infectious hepatitis and others.
• Program for treatment of pregnant women addicted to heroin and other opiates. This is realized in cooperation with gynecologists and neonatologist.
• Sessions for significant others. These are in the first place informative group sessions, which encompass significant elements of self-help.
• Modern laboratory makes it possible for us to do fast and reliable detection of the presence of addictive substances in body fluids of our patients and diagnosis of HIV, hepatitis B,C infections.
• Program of substitution methadone treatment and with other substances is reserved to those addicted to opiates, whose effort is social and work integration in spite of difficult conditions, which do not allow them full abstinence at the moment.

Institute of Drug Dependencies