Addiction Psychiatrist
Psychiatry & Neurology · Addiction Psychiatry · taxonomy 2084P0802X
What this licence covers
Psychiatrists are medical doctors (MD or DO) who completed a psychiatry residency. They are the group that can prescribe and manage psychiatric medication, and many practise in coordination with a separate therapist rather than providing weekly therapy themselves.
Medical treatment of substance use disorders, including medication.
The formal definition
Addiction Psychiatry is a subspecialty of psychiatry that focuses on evaluation and treatment of individuals with alcohol, drug, or other substance-related disorders, and of individuals with dual diagnosis of substance-related and other psychiatric disorders.
Source: NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy code set. This is the definition used for billing and registration, which is why it reads the way it does.
Many also hold another licence
different training route, same personThese are registrations where the same person also holds a licence of a genuinely different kind — not the same qualification recorded twice. It is worth knowing because it widens what someone can work with: a counsellor who is also a social worker brings a different second toolkit than one who is also a behaviour analyst.
Counted from every taxonomy code on a registration, not just the primary one. A provider can appear under more than one row.
By state
Related licence types
also under Psychiatry & Neurology| Licence type | Registered |
|---|---|
| Psychiatrist | 59,853 |
| Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist | 7,899 |
| Geriatric Psychiatrist | 817 |
| Forensic Psychiatrist | 529 |
| Psychosomatic Medicine Psychiatrist | 358 |
| Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry Physician | 357 |