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Birmingham Addiction Specialists

1 Doctors Found
Of the 1 Addiction Specialists in Birmingham shown on this page:
  • 1 Board certified
  • 6 Reviews
  • Average rating is 2 stars
  • Average wait time is 11.7 minutes

Top Addiction Specialists in Birmingham, MI

Gerald A Shiener, MD

Gerald A Shiener, MD

  • Currently 2 of 4 stars
(6) (2)
Gerald Shiener
251 E Merrill St
Ste 230
Birmingham, MI 48009
  • Psychiatry
  • Forensic Psychiatry
  • Addiction Psychiatry
  • Geriatric Psychiatry
  • Psychosomatic Medicine
  • 34 years experience
  • 4 star hospital
  • Board certified
  • 3 star medical school
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 Birmingham, MI has a population of approximately 20,107 people. There is 1 addiction doctor near Birmingham, which gives it a ratio of 1 addiction doctor per 20,107 residents or a ratio of 1 addiction doctor per 9,041 households. There are 9,041 households in Birmingham.