Your Local Hospital’s Physician, In Person
Maryville is home to Anderson Hospital, where Dr. Padda is on staff with full privileges. Patients here are treated by a physician already embedded in their local hospital system.
Maryville is home to Anderson Hospital, where Dr. Padda is on staff with full privileges. Patients from here are treated by a physician already credentialed inside their own community’s hospital — while the addiction treatment itself runs in person at the Woodson Rd clinic, where examination and in-clinic screening happen together.
West on I-270 across the river, exiting near Lambert for the Woodson Rd clinic. The clinic is at 4477 Woodson Rd, Suite 101, St. Louis, MO 63134, next to St. Louis Lambert International Airport.
Treatment for Maryville patients
The three programs, all in person:
Opioid Addiction Treatment
Buprenorphine/naloxone, from the physician already on your hospital’s staff. What this involves.
Alcohol Addiction Treatment
Alcohol use disorder, medically managed. What this involves.
Drug Addiction Treatment
Substance use disorders and what is driving them underneath. What this involves.
Being able to check the credential locally
Maryville is where Anderson Hospital is, which puts patients from this village in an unusual position: the physician treating them holds privileges inside the hospital at the end of their own road. That is worth more than it sounds. People arrive at addiction medicine after being handed between programs, and a medical staff appointment at your own community hospital is something you can verify locally rather than take on faith from a website. The treatment itself runs across the river, face to face, with the examination and the in-clinic screening in the same visit.
Pregnancy changes the plan, but not the medication
Opioid use disorder in pregnancy is one of the situations where the wrong instinct is common and dangerous. The instinct is to detoxify — to get the medication out before delivery — and the evidence runs firmly against it.
Withdrawal in pregnancy carries risk to the fetus, and the relapse rate after a supervised withdrawal is high, which exposes the pregnancy to a contaminated supply and to overdose. Medication treatment continued through pregnancy produces better outcomes for both, and it is the standard of care rather than a compromise.
Neonatal opioid withdrawal is a manageable, expected and treatable condition. It is not a reason to stop maintenance treatment, and being told otherwise is one of the more consequential pieces of bad advice in this field. Care is coordinated with obstetrics, and being on staff at Anderson Hospital makes that coordination direct.
Older patients on long-standing opioid prescriptions
A distinct group arrives here having taken prescribed opioids for a decade or more for genuine pain, with a prescriber who has retired, moved, or stopped prescribing. They are frequently told they are not addicts and simultaneously that nobody will continue the prescription.
Physical dependence and addiction are not the same thing, and conflating them produces exactly this situation. Someone can be physically dependent after years of appropriate treatment without meeting criteria for a use disorder, and the correct response is neither abrupt discontinuation nor indefinite continuation without review.
Abrupt tapering in this group is associated with real harm — overdose and mental health crisis both rise. What is needed is an assessment of the pain, an assessment of the dependence, and a plan that addresses both. This practice does both parts, which is why the two are not referred between.
What being on the hospital staff actually changes
Anderson Hospital in Maryville is the community hospital for this part of Madison County, and Dr. Padda holds full privileges there.
The practical difference shows up at the points where addiction treatment usually breaks: an emergency visit, a surgical admission, a delivery. In each of those a maintenance plan can be continued or restarted deliberately rather than being reconstructed later from a discharge summary that may not arrive.
It is also the difference between a physician who will see Illinois patients and one embedded in the system those patients actually use. That is worth more in the difficult weeks than it sounds in an ordinary one.
Screening exists to guide the plan
In-clinic screening is part of routine care here and it is worth saying plainly what it is for, because most patients arrive expecting it to be a test with a pass mark.
It tells us whether the dose is holding across the day, whether something has been added that changes the risk calculation, and whether the plan needs adjusting. A result showing continued use prompts a conversation about what is not working.
It is not grounds for discharge. Practices that remove patients for positive screens produce worse outcomes than practices that treat the result as clinical information, and keeping people in treatment is the entire objective.
What Maryville patients ask
Can I be treated at Anderson Hospital instead?
No — the addiction treatment program runs at the Woodson Rd clinic in person. The Anderson privileges are a credential you can verify locally and a continuity route if hospital care is ever needed.
Do my records go to Anderson Hospital automatically?
No. The clinic’s records are separate, and nothing is released to any hospital or physician without your written authorization. The privileges are a credential and a continuity route, not a shared chart.
I have been on prescribed opioids for years and my doctor retired.
That is a common and specific situation, and it is not the same as addiction. Physical dependence after years of appropriate treatment is a different thing, and abrupt tapering in this group causes measurable harm. Come in and we will assess the pain and the dependence together.
The drive from Maryville
Addictionology Center
4477 Woodson Rd, Suite 101
St. Louis, MO 63134
Next to St. Louis Lambert International Airport.
Phone: +1 (314) 463-0100
Hours: Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM