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Obsessive-compulsive disorder and substance use disorder show up together more often than most people expect. Studies of the general population and of people seeking OCD treatment both find that a meaningful share of people with OCD also meet criteria for a substance use disorder.
October 9, 2026
Residential dual diagnosis treatment covers addiction and mental health in one live-in setting. Learn how programs differ in psychiatric care and what to ask.
October 8, 2026
Stopping heavy drinking suddenly on your own can be dangerous, but "at home" and "medical" aren't opposites. Learn how supervised outpatient and inpatient alcohol detox differ, why withdrawal is so hard to predict, and which warning signs call for urgent medical care.
October 6, 2026
What alcohol detox actually involves, why it's medically monitored, and how long withdrawal typically lasts, based on NIAAA and ASAM guidance
October 2, 2026
Merakey's new licensed mobile methadone unit brings same-day medication, counseling and outpatient handoffs to Kensington, after a soft launch that started more than 300 people on treatment.
September 27, 2026
Real data on inpatient vs outpatient rehab: how they differ in structure, cost, and outcomes, and what the actual research shows about which setting helps whom.
September 25, 2026
Opioid settlement money is funding the next contract for a mobile treatment unit serving rural Snohomish County, with applications due September 30 and service starting January 1, 2027.
September 22, 2026
An estimated 21.5 million U.S. adults live with both a mental health condition and a substance use disorder — and most who get help are treated for only one. Here is what the research shows about treating both together.
September 20, 2026
A telehealth startup is now prescribing GLP-1 weight-loss medications off-label for addiction. Here is what the research does and does not show.
September 18, 2026
Search "inpatient rehab" and "residential treatment" and you'll find both terms attached to programs that look nearly identical: a live-in facility, structured daily therapy, and a stay measured in weeks. That overlap isn't a coincidence, and it isn't a sign that either term is being used carelessly
September 18, 2026
If you're asking this question, there's a decent chance you're not asking out of idle curiosity. Maybe you've decided to stop drinking and you're trying to brace yourself for what's ahead.
September 16, 2026
Watching someone you love struggle with addiction while they insist nothing is wrong is one of the more disorienting positions a family member can be in. You can see the problem clearly. They may not see it at all, or they see it and aren't ready to act on it.
September 15, 2026
The most rigorous available data on what insured people actually pay comes from a Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker analysis of 2023 commercial insurance claims.
September 14, 2026
Learn how same-day rehab admissions work, including detox, residential treatment, insurance, assessments, bed availability, and levels of care.
September 13, 2026
Learn how employer health insurance can cover drug and alcohol rehab, including detox, residential treatment, inpatient care, prior authorization, medical necessity, PPO networks and out-of-network benefits.
September 12, 2026· Treatment Locators Editorial Team
On September 8, 2026, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration issued new enforcement guidance focused on barriers to mental health and substance use disorder benefits.
September 11, 2026
On September 8, 2026 — a date HHS specifically chose to call "988 Day," playing on the digits of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline — the Department of Health and Human Services announced $383.4 million in new behavioral health grants
September 10, 2026
Every September since 1989, the country sets aside a month to talk about something it spends the other eleven trying to avoid: addiction, and the fact that people recover from it
September 9, 2026
In the last week of August 2026, the legal status of a handful of chemicals most Americans had never heard of shifted overnight.
September 9, 2026
For nearly five years, the federal government treated fentanyl test strips the same way it treated naloxone: a tool it actively funded to keep people who use drugs alive
September 9, 2026
You may have seen the name before without anyone explaining what it actually is. It's shown up as a passing reference in FDA drug approvals, in state proclamations, in press releases from recovery advocacy groups — the "Great American Recovery Initiative"
September 9, 2026
Federal marijuana rescheduling has been "about to happen" for years, which makes it easy to assume the question is either already settled or still purely theoretical.
September 9, 2026
Four months after telling grantees they could no longer use federal money on fentanyl test strips or syringe programs, the same agency announced $77 million in new funding.
September 9, 2026
Something genuinely unusual happened to America's overdose numbers between 2023 and 2024.
September 9, 2026
Search for "the best rehab near me" and you'll get thousands of confident answers, most of them from the facilities themselves. It's a strange question when you actually sit with it, because "best" implies there's one right answer sitting out there waiting to be found — and that's not really how add
August 25, 2026
Find out how your insurance plan covers addiction treatment. Lean the real difference between in-network vs out-of-network care.
August 16, 2026
Every treatment facility operating in the U.S. needs a state license just to open its doors. Licensing sets a legal floor — the minimum requirements a state considers necessary for a facility to operate at all, covering things like basic safety codes, staff qualifications, and record-keeping.
August 15, 2026
A return to substance use after treatment is often treated, both socially and sometimes even clinically, as proof that treatment didn't work — that the person, or the program, failed.
August 11, 2026
There's a phrase that gets repeated so often it starts to lose meaning: "it's a disease, not a choice." True as that is, it doesn't really explain anything.
August 8, 2026
