About Our Oxycontin Detoxifying and Heroin Detox Specialist

Certified and Fellowship Trained in Addiction Medicine:

• Oxycontin detoxifying procedures and buprenorphine dosing steps to assist patient recovery with their drug addictions and drug abuse is a complicated matter, requiring diligence and total discretion. As a heroin detox specialist, Dr. Nathan offers complete outpatient and One Day Detox programs for both men and women in a private setting.
• Specializing in heroin detox therapy, Joel Nathan, MD has over 15 years of experience in addiction medicine. He is also certified by the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) as an addiction medicine specialist. He was certified in 1988 and re-certified in 1997. His credentials are:
• Dr. Nathan was fellowship trained in substance abuse with a 2-year fellowship at the VA Medical Center in San Francisco .
• He served as Director of several substance abuse programs in California : Kaiser Permanente's Chemical Dependency Recovery Program in Anaheim , the Veterans Affairs Medical Center 's Substance Abuse Inpatient Unit in San Francisco , and Stanford University 's Alcohol and Drug Program in Palo Alto .
• Dr. Nathan served on the faculty of Stanford University and the University of California-San Francisco .
• He is certified to treat opiate dependency with Buprenorphine dosing and is certified to train other physicians on how to detoxify patients with Buprenophine dosing by the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment in Washington , D.C.
• Dr. Nathan has nationally lectured on substance abuse treatment and pain management in chemically dependent patients.
• He has published several journal articles on substance abuse. As recently as October 2003, he was interviewed on the CBS Early Show for his innovative and successful detoxification programs.
• He has been practicing in the New York Metro area since 1999. He served as a heroin detox specialist medical director of several programs including Bridge Back to Life Center in Brooklyn .
• He is the founding medical director of the Addiction Recovery Institute in New Rochelle and New York City , where they offer outpatient and one day detox programs.

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