Farmington Addiction Specialists
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- Average rating is 4 stars
Top Addiction Specialists in Farmington, WV
1325 Locust Ave
Fairmont, WV 26554
- Family Medicine
- Family Medicine - Addiction Medicine
- Psychiatry
- Psychiatry
- 35 years experience
- Rated 4 stars by patients
- 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 Farmington, WV has a population of approximately 1,833 people. There is 1 addiction doctor near Farmington, which gives it a ratio of 1 addiction doctor per 1,833 residents or a ratio of 1 addiction doctor per 775 households. There are 775 households in Farmington.
