Addiction Medicine focuses on treating and managing an individual experiencing addiction of alcohol, or illicit or prescription drugs. It incorporates knowledge and treatments from psychology, psychiatry, public health, clinical internal medicine, pharmacology, and social work. Services include programs and clinics which manage withdrawal symptoms and provide acute intervention, education, detoxification, rehabilitation, and coordination of counselling and other therapies, care or support services. Addiction medicine, and drug and alcohol treatment and recovery services are provided by multi-disciplinary teams in hospitals, primary care practices, residences, and community settings.