Morgantown Addiction Specialists
- 2 Board certified
- 2 Reviews
- Average rating is 4 stars
Top Addiction Specialists in Morgantown, WV
930 Chestnut Ridge Rd
Morgantown, WV 26505
- Internal Medicine
- Psychiatry
- Psychiatry
- Addiction Psychiatry
- Pain Medicine
- 29 years experience
- Rated 4 stars by patients
- Board certified
- 3 star hospital
930 Chestnut Ridge Rd
Morgantown, WV 26505
- Psychiatry
- Addiction Psychiatry
- 8 years experience
- Rated 4 stars by patients
- Board certified
- Completed fellowship
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 Morgantown, WV has a population of approximately 87,558 people. There are 2 addiction specialists near Morgantown, which gives it a ratio of 1 addiction doctor per 43,779 residents or a ratio of 1 addiction doctor per 18,164 households. There are 36,328 households in Morgantown.
