Orthopedics and Physiotherapy

Addiction Psychiatry

Addiction psychiatry is a medical subspecialty within the psychiatry that focuses on the evaluation and diagnosis and treatment of people who all are suffering from one or more disorders related to addiction. This may also include to disorders which involve legal and illegal drugs and gambling and food and other impulse control disorders.

Addiction psychiatrists are substances which use disorder experts. Growing amounts of scientific knowledge such as the health effects and treatments for substance use disorders led to advancements in the field of addiction psychiatry. These advancements in understanding the neurobiology of rewarding the behaviour along with federal funding, has allowed for ample opportunity for research in the discipline of addiction psychiatry.