About Withdrawal.help

Withdrawal.help is a free directory of detox programs in the United States and of the care that comes after detox (residential and outpatient treatment, methadone clinics and buprenorphine prescribers), plus plain guides to withdrawal itself: what to expect, and which symptoms mean you need medical care now. It is independent. It is not part of SAMHSA or any government agency, and no treatment program owns it.

We take no money from treatment providers

Withdrawal.help is non-commercial. It takes no money from treatment programs, their owners or marketers, in any form: no paid or “featured” listings, no sponsorships, no advertising, no affiliate links, no pay per call, click, referral or admission, and no call tracking. Every phone number on the site is the program’s own number as reported to SAMHSA. We don’t sell or share anything about the people who use the site, and we don’t refer anyone to a particular program.

How the lists are ordered

Nobody can pay to be listed, to be listed higher, or to be left out. The order follows fixed rules that are the same for every program:

• Detox lists: hospital programs first, then residential, then outpatient; within each group, A to Z by name.
• Residential lists: programs that also offer detox first, then A to Z.
• Outpatient lists: day treatment, then intensive outpatient, then regular outpatient; A to Z within each.
• Methadone clinics: programs with a full SAMHSA listing first, then ones known only from SAMHSA’s opioid treatment program directory; A to Z within each.
• Buprenorphine: certified opioid treatment programs first, then A to Z.
• The finder: nearest first, by straight-line distance from your ZIP code.

The most intensive setting comes first. Position is not a rating or a recommendation.

Where the listings come from

Every program on this site comes from SAMHSA’s FindTreatment.gov, the federal government’s national listing of licensed treatment programs. Programs report their own services, payment options and licenses to SAMHSA. We pull the full list every month and show what each program reported in a form you can compare, with a log of what changed. How the list is built explains the details, including what the data can’t tell you.

We don’t add programs that aren’t in SAMHSA’s listing, and we don’t remove ones that are. If a listing is wrong, tell us.

Who writes the guides

The guides are written from primary sources, which are linked on every page: FDA drug labels, SAMHSA treatment guides, the American Society of Addiction Medicine’s guidelines, and federal survey data. A licensed clinician has not reviewed them yet. Each guide says so at the top. Once a clinician reviews a guide, their name and credentials go on it. Nothing here is medical advice; see the medical disclaimer.

Who runs it

withdrawal.help is an independent website. Questions, corrections, privacy requests and press: use the contact form.