Evidence-based articles on addiction — insurance, treatment, therapy, family, aftercare.
New articles, updated insurance policies, FDA MAT approvals — curated, no filler.
Clinical claims trace to government agencies, professional societies or peer-reviewed literature — and the link is on the page, not in a bibliography nobody reads.
Each article carries a review date. When a guideline moves — as ASAM’s benzodiazepine tapering guidance did in 2025 — the article is rewritten rather than restamped.
Neither can be published honestly in this field — a success rate means nothing without its population, follow-up and definition, and testimonials trade on privacy we are meant to protect.
Written by the Peninsula clinical editorial team · Reviewed by our clinical leadership · Last reviewed September 2026
Four routes through this material. Each one starts with the page that answers the question people in that situation actually ask first.
Most first calls come from a partner, a parent or an assistant. Begin with what a family can actually do, including where the legal route exists and why it is a last option: the Marchman Act explained, then what happens when you call.
This is a clinical decision, not a price decision, and it is usually less intensive than people fear. Start with the seven levels of care, then PHP or IOP, how to choose.
The number that decides your real exposure is your out-of-pocket maximum, not the daily rate. Start with does insurance cover rehab, then what plans cover level by level.
Withdrawal risk differs enormously between them, and two can injure you on the way out. Alcohol, benzodiazepines, opioids, cocaine, prescription drugs, more than one.
Ranking programmes we are not accountable for is a directory’s business model. We describe one programme and the evidence around it.
A figure without its population, follow-up period and definition of success can be moved from 20% to 90% without anything clinical changing.
There is one genuinely urgent question in this field — whether stopping is medically dangerous. Everything else can be decided at your pace.
If a claim here would not survive being asked about by a clinician, it should not be here. Tell us when it is.
Any percentage without its population and time window is decoration. This applies to our pages as much as to anyone else’s.
A page that recommends the most intensive option to every reader is describing its inventory. A clinical page names the condition under which it would recommend less.
The Peninsula clinical editorial team, reviewed by our clinical leadership. We are a treatment provider, not a publisher and not a directory — which is a conflict of interest you should factor in, and the reason every clinical claim here links to a source that is not us.
Facility data, where cited, comes from SAMHSA’s National Directory and state licensing boards. Statistics are cross-referenced against CDC WONDER, NIDA, and peer-reviewed research. Every medical claim is checked against primary sources before publication. Corrections are processed within 48 hours.
