About Alcohol.help

Alcohol.help is a free guide to treatment for alcohol use disorder in the United States, built around one question people rarely get answered: where can I get medication for this? It is independent. It is not part of SAMHSA, NIAAA or any government agency, and no treatment program owns it.

We take no money from treatment providers

Alcohol.help is non-commercial. It takes no money from treatment programs, prescribers, telehealth services, drug makers or their 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:

• City and state lists: programs that report more of the four FDA-approved medications for alcohol use disorder come first, then A to Z by name. It’s a count of what each program told SAMHSA, so you see the widest choice of medication first. It is not a rating.
• The finders: nearest first, by straight-line distance from your ZIP code.

Where the program listings come from

The listings come from SAMHSA’s FindTreatment.gov, the federal government’s national listing of licensed treatment programs. Programs report their own services to SAMHSA, including whether they prescribe medication for alcohol use disorder and which drugs they use. We pull the full list, keep the programs that say they prescribe, and lay them out side by side by city and state. How the list is built explains the details and the limits.

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

Who writes the guides

The guides are written from primary sources linked on every page: FDA drug labels, NIAAA and SAMHSA publications, clinical 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

Alcohol.help is an independent website. Questions, corrections, privacy requests and press: hello@alcohol.help or the contact form.