Chestnut Hill Addiction Specialists
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- 19 Reviews
- Average rating is 2.5 stars
- Average wait time is 31.4 minutes
Top Addiction Specialists in Chestnut Hill, MA
271 Carew St
Springfield, MA 01104
- Preventive Medicine
- Public Health & General Preventive Medicine
- General Preventive Medicine
- General Practice
- Family Medicine
- Internal Medicine
- Internal Medicine - Addiction Medicine
- Psychiatry
- Addiction Medicine
- 35 years experience
- 4 star hospital
- Completed fellowship
300 South St
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
- Addiction Psychiatry
- 21 years experience
- Completed fellowship
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 Chestnut Hill, MA has a population of approximately 22,491 people. There are 2 addiction specialists near Chestnut Hill, which gives it a ratio of 1 addiction doctor per 11,246 residents or a ratio of 1 addiction doctor per 3,211 households. There are 6,421 households in Chestnut Hill.
