Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment in North Charleston, SC

Hope Integrative Medicine treats alcohol use disorder for adults in North Charleston and across Charleston, Berkeley and Dorchester Counties with medication-assisted treatment (MAT), counseling and regular follow-up. Visits can be by secure video from home, and in-person visits, including Vivitrol injections, are at our West Ashley office in Charleston.

How Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment Works

Care starts with a full evaluation, and treatment combines medication-assisted treatment (MAT) with counseling and regular follow-up. There is no single right medication for everyone. Your provider walks you through the options, and together you choose the treatment that fits your health, your goals and your other medicines, based on shared decision-making and a careful look at the risks and benefits of each option. Whether withdrawal can be managed safely as an outpatient is decided at your evaluation. When the risk of severe withdrawal is high, we help arrange a higher level of care. Stopping heavy daily drinking suddenly can cause seizures or delirium tremens, which can be fatal. Talk to a clinician before stopping, and call 911 for confusion, hallucinations or a seizure. Read our full guide to alcohol use disorder treatment in South Carolina.

Health and Care in North Charleston

North Charleston is home to Charleston Southern University and Trident Technical College's Thornley Campus on Rivers Avenue. (Source: en.wikipedia.org)

Charleston Air Force Base, part of Joint Base Lindsey Graham, sits partly in North Charleston, the third-largest city in South Carolina. (Source: en.wikipedia.org)

North Charleston is one of only three places in the world that build wide-body commercial jets, alongside major vehicle and parts manufacturers. (Source: ajc.com)

The port's Leatherman Terminal in North Charleston opened in 2021 with room for 700,000 container units a year. (Source: scspa.com)

The Charleston Naval Base employed more than 36,000 people in 1983 before it closed in 1996. (Source: postandcourier.com)

An estimated 19.8 percent of adults in North Charleston report binge drinking.

An estimated 33.4 percent of adults in North Charleston have been told they have high blood pressure.

An estimated 21.1 percent of adults in North Charleston rate their health as fair or poor.

An estimated 34.5 percent of adults in North Charleston report loneliness.

Sources: CDC PLACES, 2025 release (model-based estimates from 2022 and 2023 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data); CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2022 (age-adjusted), via County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, 2025; Fatality Analysis Reporting System, 2018 to 2022, via County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, 2025.

Did You Know? Life in North Charleston

The H.L. Hunley, the world's first successful combat submarine, was raised in 2000 and is conserved in a North Charleston laboratory. (Source: hunley.org)

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