Shawnee Addiction Specialists
- 1 Board certified
Top Addiction Specialists in Shawnee, OK
2205 Bryant Via
Shawnee, OK 74804
- Family Medicine
- Family Medicine - Addiction Medicine
- 26 years experience
- Board certified
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 Shawnee, OK has a population of approximately 41,288 people. There is 1 addiction doctor near Shawnee, which gives it a ratio of 1 addiction doctor per 41,288 residents or a ratio of 1 addiction doctor per 15,809 households. There are 15,809 households in Shawnee.
