Virginia Beach Addiction Specialists
- 4 Board certified
- 2 Award winners
- 24 Reviews
- Average rating is 3.3 stars
- Average wait time is 17.1 minutes
Top Addiction Specialists in Virginia Beach, VA
4616 Westgrove Ct
Virginia Beach, VA 23455
- Family Medicine - Addiction Medicine
- Diagnostic Radiology
- 33 years experience
- 3 star medical school
4616 Westgrove Ct
Virginia Beach, VA 23455
- Internal Medicine
- Internal Medicine - Addiction Medicine
- Family Medicine - Addiction Medicine
- 47 years experience
- Patients' Choice Award
- Short wait time
3000 Coliseum Dr
Ste 103
Hampton, VA 23666
- Neurological Surgery
- Family Medicine - Addiction Medicine
- 28 years experience
- 4 star hospital
780 Lynnhaven Pkwy
Ste 400
Virginia Beach, VA 23452
- Psychiatry
- Addiction Medicine
- Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- 31 years experience
- 4 star hospital
- 4 star medical school
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 Virginia Beach, VA has a population of approximately 437,994 people. There are 4 addiction specialists near Virginia Beach, which gives it a ratio of 1 addiction doctor per 109,499 residents or a ratio of 1 addiction doctor per 41,272 households. There are 165,089 households in Virginia Beach.
