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Upper Lake Addiction Specialists

1 Doctors Found
Of the 1 Addiction Specialists in Upper Lake shown on this page:
  • 1 Board certified
  • 3 Reviews
  • Average rating is 4 stars
  • Average wait time is 10 minutes

Top Addiction Specialists in Upper Lake, CA

Robert W Gardner, MD

Robert W Gardner, MD

  • Currently 4 of 4 stars
(3) (0)
Robert W Gardner, MD
6300 E Highway 20
Lucerne, CA 95458
  • Psychiatry
  • Family Medicine - Addiction Medicine
  • 35 years experience
  • Rated 4 stars by patients
  • 3 star medical school
  • Short wait time
What are Addiction Medicine Specialists?

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 Upper Lake, CA has a population of approximately 2,557 people. There is 1 addiction doctor near Upper Lake, which gives it a ratio of 1 addiction doctor per 2,557 residents or a ratio of 1 addiction doctor per 1,051 households. There are 1,051 households in Upper Lake.