Lake Worth Addiction Specialists
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- Average rating is 2.5 stars
- Average wait time is 17.5 minutes
Top Addiction Specialists in Lake Worth, FL
2550 W Dr Mlk Blvd
Tampa, FL 33607
- Internal Medicine
- Internal Medicine - Addiction Medicine
- 13 years experience
- Completed fellowship
- 3 star medical school
- Short wait time
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 Lake Worth, FL has a population of approximately 215,808 people. There is 1 addiction doctor near Lake Worth, which gives it a ratio of 1 addiction doctor per 215,808 residents or a ratio of 1 addiction doctor per 79,895 households. There are 79,895 households in Lake Worth.
