Glendale Addiction Specialists
- 1 Board certified
- 2 Reviews
- Average rating is 4 stars
- Average wait time is 7.5 minutes
Top Addiction Specialists in Glendale, CA
1809 Verdugo Blvd
Ste 200
Glendale, CA 91208
- Internal Medicine
- Internal Medicine - Addiction Medicine
- Pain Medicine
- 36 years experience
- Rated 4 stars by patients
- 4 star hospital
- 3 star medical school
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 Glendale, CA has a population of approximately 172,817 people. There is 1 addiction doctor near Glendale, which gives it a ratio of 1 addiction doctor per 172,817 residents or a ratio of 1 addiction doctor per 65,443 households. There are 65,443 households in Glendale.
