1. Counselling heavy cannabis user via helpline ● Some social conditions and specific questions. ● The background of cannabis callers. ● The counselling methods and techniques. ● Two typical cases ● Our results...

2. German society conditions and particular terms. Between medial hype and matter of facts ● The medial hype... ● A roll back of opinions... ● Consumers as mental cases.. ● Endangerment from Netherlands cannabis... ● Consumers as psychiatric cases... ● Clarification of facts... ● for example... Legend of non-con- trollable stuff.... ● Either pro-cannabis or... ● Playing down the risk...

3. The background of cannabis callers ● The biggest group of callers are parents and relatives ● In second place are callers with drivers license problems ● Third group are the heavy cannabis users... ● Fourth are administrativ people asking for information

4. Our consulting techniques and methods ● Human therapy / Carl Rogers ● Cognitive – behaviouristic - Counselling ● Motivational Interviewing / Miller & Rollnick ● Coaching

5. Two typical cases... ● 28 y. old male driver origin of the Makreb ● 14 years of consumation ● 5 years married... ● The last four years he tryed to stop his con- sumption ● Cannabis helped him to control his aggressive parts… ● 35 y. old, male social worker German.... ● 18 years of consu- mation... ● He smoked two or three time per day... ● His girlfriend called us he was ambivalent... ● Doesn’t know how to stop...

6. Basic results... ● We give a solution-oriented-consulting......attend in the crisis......disclose the problem behind the addiction.....open scopes of actions...and we could connect to therapy. ● So the hotlines and the other drug help institutions could help! ●... but we have to do even more.