Anchorage Addiction Specialists
- 2 Board certified
Top Addiction Specialists in Anchorage, AK
3801 Lake Otis Pkwy
Ste 200
Anchorage, AK 99508
- Internal Medicine
- Internal Medicine - Addiction Medicine
- Addiction Medicine
- 31 years experience
- 3 star medical school
4325 Laurel St
Ste 205
Anchorage, AK 99508
- Psychiatry
- Addiction Medicine
An addiction medicine specialist is a doctor who treats patients with addictions to substances like drugs and alcohol, or in some cases, behaviors like gambling. Many of these specialists also treat the diseases that stem from these addictions.
These physicians are specially trained to prevent and treat the disease of addiction via psychiatric means, or other fields of medicine like family or internal medicine.
Some of the treatments that addiction medicine specialists perform or oversee are:
- detoxification
- rehabilitation
- harm reduction
- abstinence-based treatment
- individual/group therapy
- halfway houses
- withdrawal symptom treatments
- acute intervention
- long term therapies to prevent relapse
The area of Anchorage, AK has a population of approximately 242,037 people. There are 2 addiction specialists near Anchorage, which gives it a ratio of 1 addiction doctor per 121,019 residents or a ratio of 1 addiction doctor per 45,401 households. There are 90,801 households in Anchorage.
