Christina E. Jones, MD, FASAM was born in rural Louisiana and attended Tulane Undergraduate and School of Medicine. She attended a preliminary year at the University of Florida and completed a 2-year research fellowship in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery before deciding on a career in Internal Medicine.

After being a victim of hurricane Katrina and then a month later hurricane Rita, Dr. Jones decided to move to Delaware to complete her Internal Medicine training. Her interest in addiction medicine blossomed there, and she became a DATA waived physician in 2009 and
moved back to hometown to help her community in the treatment of the opiate epidemic in 2016.

Dr. Jones has a mission to dispel the stigma of dependency and to improve treatment for all individuals regardless of their economic situation.

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