Can anyone in Addiction provide some insight in the subspecialty?

[flatearth22]

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Skills/personality needed for Addiction on top of regular psychiatry?

Hours, lifestyle, freedom to move around and practice?

Types of patients (demographics, inpatient vs. outpatient, etc.)

Thanks in advance.

 

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[OldPsychDoc]

Skills/personality needed for Addiction on top of regular psychiatry?

Hours, lifestyle, freedom to move around and practice?

Types of patients (demographics, inpatient vs. outpatient, etc.)

Thanks in advance.

First off, Good boundaries--e.g. ability to refrain from stalking pretty young women seen in brief video clips.

Beyond that: patience; willingness to accept incremental change; willingness to colaborate with patients to identify and acheive their goals; honest and sincere interest in substance dependence.

Hours, lifestyle, freedom to move around and practice?
Types of patients (demographics, inpatient vs. outpatient, etc.)
All pretty much up to you.

 

[flatearth22]

First off, Good boundaries--e.g. ability to refrain from stalking pretty young women seen in brief video clips.

Beyond that: patience; willingness to accept incremental change; willingness to colaborate with patients to identify and acheive their goals; honest and sincere interest in substance dependence.

Hours, lifestyle, freedom to move around and practice?
Types of patients (demographics, inpatient vs. outpatient, etc.)
All pretty much up to you.

lol....duly noted. thanks.

anyone else? seems like a really cool subspecialty but there's not much info I can get on it using the google.

 

[OldPsychDoc]

lol....duly noted. thanks.

anyone else? seems like a really cool subspecialty but there's not much info I can get on it using the google.

You're really best off finding an addiction psychiatrist or two in your area and trying to shadow. Also, we tend to be folded into the general mental health care system (since frankly, that's where the addicts really are!) Very few of us are full-time "addictionists". I only do 20% time in a dedicated chem dep setting, for example.