Chattanooga Addiction Specialists
- 3 Board certified
- 2 Award winners
- 2 Reviews
- Average rating is 3 stars
- Average wait time is 15 minutes
Top Addiction Specialists in Chattanooga, TN
2339 Mccallie Ave Ste 401
Chattanooga, TN 37404
- Psychiatry
- Addiction Psychiatry
- 9 years experience
- Board certified
960 E 3rd St
Ste 526
Chattanooga, TN 37403
- Psychiatry
- Addiction Psychiatry
- Geriatric Psychiatry
- 46 years experience
- 3 star hospital
- Short wait time
1100 E 3rd St
Chattanooga, TN 37403
- Family Medicine
- Family Medicine - Addiction Medicine
- Family Medicine - Geriatric Medicine
- 35 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 Chattanooga, TN has a population of approximately 198,659 people. There are 3 addiction specialists near Chattanooga, which gives it a ratio of 1 addiction doctor per 66,220 residents or a ratio of 1 addiction doctor per 28,017 households. There are 84,051 households in Chattanooga.
