Pennsylvania Detox Clinics

The Stepping Stones unit at Meadville Medical Center provides inpatient drug and alcohol detoxification and rehabilitation with outpatient counseling, for adults aged 18 and over. The program is short-term — rehabilitation ordinarily runs up to 28 days — and offers medically managed withdrawal and medication-assisted treatment. Admissions are screened through the hospital's emergency department, so entry is via the ED rather than a direct booking. Coverage includes Medicaid, Medicare, private and military insurance, state funding and public assistance, and self-paying clients are taken.

Livengrin Foundation has treated drug and alcohol addiction in Pennsylvania since 1966, when a Philadelphia advertising executive, Standish Forde Hansell, converted a 50-year-old country estate on 44 acres at Bensalem into a non-profit for people with alcoholism. The campus still occupies those 44 acres and now holds three modern residential houses alongside detox, intensive outpatient and outpatient programs, plus intervention services and a dedicated gambling addiction program. Livengrin gives preferential admission to four priority groups — pregnant women, overdose survivors, people who inject drugs, and veterans — and provides resources for uninsured and under-insured patients. Medicaid, private and military insurance, state funding and self-pay are accepted.

The Wilkes Barre VA Medical Center provides residential and intensive outpatient substance use treatment for veterans in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. As a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs facility, it serves veterans eligible for VA health care.

Snug Harbor Rehabilitation and Recovery is a residential substance use treatment program on East Lake Road in Erie, Pennsylvania, offering residential rehabilitation with on-site detoxification. Medicare, private and military insurance, state funding and self-pay are accepted.

POWER Restore provides residential substance use treatment and recovery housing for women in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Part of POWER (Pennsylvania Organization for Women in Early Recovery), the program serves women in a gender-specific environment with individual and group counseling, case management, and recovery support services. POWER accepts Medical Assistance (Medicaid) and offers a sliding fee scale.

Alpine Springs Rehabilitation & Recovery provides residential addiction treatment in Greenville, Pennsylvania, offering ASAM 3.5 residential care and 3.7 medically monitored detoxification. The program accepts Pennsylvania Medicaid — with most residents qualifying at no out-of-pocket cost — as well as Medicare, private insurance and military coverage, with treatment plans individualized to each person’s needs.

Fayette Treatment Program LLC provides intensive outpatient programming in 15320, Pennsylvania. The program serves adults and offers individual and group counseling, relapse prevention planning, and aftercare coordination.

Gateway Rehab’s Greenbriar Center is an inpatient addiction treatment campus in Washington, Pennsylvania, part of a network that has supported recovery in western Pennsylvania since 1972. The center offers 24-hour assessment and admission, medically supervised withdrawal management, and residential substance use treatment, plus adolescent, family and medication-assisted recovery programs. Gateway accepts Medicare, private insurance, military (TRICARE) and state-funded coverage.

VA Butler Healthcare provides residential substance use treatment and medically supervised detoxification for veterans at its New Castle Road location in Butler, Pennsylvania. This U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs facility offers inpatient residential rehabilitation, detox services, and mental health care for veterans with substance use disorders and co-occurring conditions.

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A large not-for-profit community service drug and alcohol treatment organization in Philadelphia, offering residential short and long term drug rehab to adults, dual diagnosis patients, and teen boys and girls. No one will be denied care for a financial reason.

Allied Addiction Recovery provides outpatient drug and alcohol treatment in Washington, Pennsylvania, with additional locations in Pittsburgh and Greensburg. The program combines medication-assisted treatment using Suboxone and Vivitrol with drug-free therapy, and offers intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization levels of care plus problem gambling counseling. It accepts Medicaid, Highmark and other Blue Cross Blue Shield plans, Aetna, Cigna, and self-pay.

Opened in November 2019 by founders Christopher and Rindy Taylor, Oil Region Recovery provides residential substance use treatment in an intimate, family-style setting in Polk, Pennsylvania. The facility offers a full continuum including medically supervised detox, short-term and long-term residential treatment for both men and women, and intensive outpatient services. Treatment incorporates cognitive-behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, 12-step involvement, relapse prevention, and art therapy guided by the ASAM Criteria.

Erie VA Medical Center is part of the VA Erie Health Care system and provides primary care, behavioral health care and substance use treatment services to veterans. The main campus at 135 East 38th Street offers residential and intensive outpatient substance use treatment along with detoxification services.

Jade Wellness Center is a family-owned and operated outpatient substance use treatment center serving Pittsburgh's Southside, Monroeville and Wexford in Southwestern Pennsylvania. The program offers counseling and medication-assisted treatment with Suboxone and Vivitrol, along with the John Ryan's House residential-style recovery program.

UPMC Mercy Hospital provides medically supervised detoxification as part of its behavioral health services in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As part of the UPMC health system, the program offers hospital-based withdrawal management with access to emergency and specialty medical services. UPMC Mercy accepts Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance.

French Creek Recovery Center provides residential substance use treatment in Meadville, Pennsylvania. The programme offers medically supervised detoxification and structured residential care with individual and group counseling, serving adults in a supportive treatment environment. French Creek Recovery Center accepts Medicaid, Medicare, and private health insurance.

Resolutions Recovery Center is a drug and alcohol rehab on Green Street in Farrell, Pennsylvania, serving the Shenango Valley. Treatment runs in three parts — detox, inpatient care and a family program — and is described as holistically grounded and multidisciplinary, addressing the physical, emotional, social and spiritual sides of recovery. Equine programming is part of it: participants work with horses on an interpersonal level as part of treatment rather than as recreation. Medicaid and Medicare are accepted alongside private and military insurance, state funding and self-payment.

Endless Mountain Behavioral Healthcare provides medical detoxification and residential substance use treatment in Sayre, Pennsylvania, in the Endless Mountains region on the New York border. Founded in 2005, it says it has supported more than 2,000 clients, working from evidence-based treatment and individual recovery plans. Medicaid, Medicare, private and military insurance and state funding are accepted, and it works with Aetna, Anthem, Blue Cross, Cigna, Humana, Meritain and United Healthcare.

Family-owned and operated, Jade Wellness Center provides outpatient substance use treatment in the Pittsburgh area with locations in Southside, Monroeville and Wexford. The center offers day treatment, intensive outpatient programming, and medication-assisted treatment with Suboxone and Vivitrol, alongside mental health services for co-occurring conditions. Jade Wellness Center is CARF-accredited, a designated Pennsylvania Center of Excellence, and dually licensed for mental health and drug and alcohol services.

BriteLife Recovery at Hanover provides medical detox and residential addiction treatment on a Pennsylvania campus with extensive outdoor space. The program offers evidence-based detox and residential care with one-on-one counseling and dual diagnosis support.