Richard Karrel

With a background in emergency medicine and addiction treatment, Dr. Richard Karrel has had an accomplished career in medicine. Dr. Karrel earned his Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) from the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. Since then, he has advanced within the field and launched his own practices, including the Richard Karrel, MD, PSC Narcotic Management Program, where he currently serves as the Medical Director and CEO.

Upon completing his medical degree, Dr. Richard Karrel served residencies in anesthesiology and emergency medicine with the University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics. He went on to become one of the first doctors in the country certified with the American Society of Addiction Medicine. He also helped to found the leading Midwest chemical dependency treatment center, LifeBack, of which he served as CEO and Medical Director. Additionally, Dr. Karrel created and directed the Rush Chemical Dependency Treatment Program, located at Rush University Medical Center, where he served as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and a psychiatry instructor. Before launching his current practice, Dr. Karrel also worked as a Medical Director for the Chemical Dependency Program and as a consultant to the psychiatry department at Rush NorthShore Medical Center, now called Skokie Hospital.

At the Richard Karrel, MD, PSC Narcotic Management Program of Louisville, Kentucky, Dr. Richard Karrel's primary focus is treating patients with chronic pain syndrome through the use of controlled opiates and sedative hypnotics. He also has the approval of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment to work with individuals with opiate addictions, in his office instead of in a hospital, by administering the drug buprenorphine.