I am a board certified psychiatrist in Bonita Springs Florida and South Florida. I serve the population of Marco Island, Fort Myers, Naples and Southwest Florida. My specialty is the treatment of non-Methadone Detox, Oxycontin and Pain Killer Addiction, Cocaine Addiction, Alcohol dependence, and Crystal Meth Addiction using state of the art outpatient Suboxone and medication treatments. Long ago Heroin outpatient detox was almost impossible. The truth is that heroin detox is a common procedure in southwest florida.
My name is Dr. Leonard A. Lado, MD and would personally like to welcome to you to my practice's website. This site has been designed with the mission to educate you about and to enable you to make informed decisions about your condition. Within my practice, I promote and facilitate my personal beliefs that patients are adequately intelligent in order to understand their condition and that patients deserve to be sincerely included in identifying reasons for and treatments for their disorders. People are intuitive by nature and are capable of deciding who they trust to treat them when they are ill. I hope to share with you my knowledge and expertise in order to help you cope with your current condition, gaining your trust and confidence.
The biggest challenge in the field of psychiatry are simply two fold. Making the correct psychiatric diagnosis and matching the medications with persons own metabolism. My practice has the ability to do both Computer Assisted Psychiatric Diagnosis and Pharmacogenetic Testing for Psychotropic Medication response which takes out the guessing game of matching the right medication for the highly probable diagnosis and patient metabolism. Pharmacogenetic testing is now possible in our facility and obtain results within 3 days. A very good web seminar on how this technology works in our practice is best described by Genelex. Right now, in doctors' offices all over the world, patients are given medications that either don't work or have bad side effects. Often, a patient must return to their doctor over and over again until the doctor can find a drug that is right for them. Pharmacogenomics offers a very appealing alternative. Leonard Lado MD now offers a simple and rapid test of your DNA, This give me the abilify to determine if the patients have the possibility of suffering a severe negative reaction to the medication due to side effects. Pharmacogenomic testing is now availabe in Lee, Collier and Charlotte counties right here in our bonita springs office.
Information on addiction recovery via the Internet can be confusing. I designed this website to facilitate the understanding of our brain in the face of malfunction. If we begin to understand that the brain is simply another organ just like the heart, pancreas, liver, etc. maybe the stigma of mental illness can be set aside and allow people to come out of their closets and into the light of recovery and health.
The treatment of Addiction, mental illness or any brain disease requires a great deal of knowledge and learning from our patients struggles. Addiction can now be treated without hospitalization in most cases with new and exciting treatments that include VIVITROL, Campral, Suboxone and now very new and exciting treatment called PROMETA Treatment Program. Drug Rehabilitation has changed greatly over the past 4 years. If you click on the tab on drug news, you can live written news on the drug problem in this country.
I am a strong believer that that drug addiction will destroy our society long before global warming. Please look at the Drug Clock and see for yourself. What is very worrysome is that serious psychological distress (SPD) continues to be associated with drug abuse. SPD in the past year was associated with past year substance dependence or abuse in 2006. Among adults aged 18 or older with SPD, 22.3 percent were dependent on or abused illicit drugs or alcohol. The rate among adults without SPD was 7.7 percent. Past year illicit drug use was higher among adults aged 18 or older with SPD (27.2 percent) than among adults without SPD (12.3 percent). Similarly, the rate of past month cigarette use was higher among adults with SPD (44.2 percent) than among adults without SPD (24.5 percent).
I like to share with you a life lesson that I share to all my patients from all our lifes experiences as we take this journey we call life
"At the time of our sunset of life we have to ask ourselves Was I too selfish? Did I forget to say I love you? Did I hang on to my anger too much? For it is not the sunset that we fear at the moment of death, but rather the fear that we did not give enough!"
Leonardo Ariel Lado, December 2006
I like to thank the many patients who have shared their lives and taught me a great deal about medicine and psychiatry through their struggles and triumph. Many of the testimonials come their experiences in drug rehab and outpatient treatment. I have added their simple letters of testimonials. So, Please welcome to my practice in the Mediterranean and tropical City of Naples Florida. In summary, non-Methadone Detox, Oxycontin Detox, Cocaine Treatment, Alcohol Detox in Naples and South Florida can be treated using Suboxone and promising and effective medications as an outpatient. If your from Marco Island, Fort Myers or Southwest Florida no need to travel far. The addiction recovery and management process does not have to be complicated. Dual Diagnosis is a treatable disease! There is no need to take time away from work even for heroin detox from in naples, Fort Myers or southwest florida. Outpatient Heroin detox in florida is possible!
