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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mirmont Treatment Center is Main Line Health's addiction treatment campus in Media, Pennsylvania, and has been treating alcohol and drug dependency there for more than forty years. It offers medically monitored detox, round-the-clock inpatient residential rehab, partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient care, with confidential programs built specifically for healthcare professionals and for first responders and veterans — the VIPER and Frontline Resilience tracks. Treatment is co-ed with separate residential wings and gender-specific groups, and includes trauma-informed therapy and a holistic pain-management strand combining mindfulness, yoga and acupuncture. Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance and military coverage are accepted; Mirmont is in-network with most commercial plans and quotes self-pay rates.

Jade Wellness Center's Wexford clinic at 101 North Meadows Drive, Suite 234, is one of three sites the operator runs in south-western Pennsylvania alongside Southside and Monroeville, and takes a deliberately low-barrier approach to medication for opioid use disorder. Its intensive outpatient program runs a day track of three days per week at three hours per day with an evening track available, and a step-down level of two hours per week for people leaving IOP; medication support includes Suboxone and Vivitrol, and a separate tobacco recovery program is offered. Aetna, Cigna and Optum are among the plans listed as accepted, along with Medicare, military insurance and self-payment.

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.

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.

The Recovery Center at St. Luke's Penn Foundation in Sellersville provides a full continuum for substance use: an inpatient, non-hospital detox giving 24/7 support outside a traditional hospital setting, inpatient rehabilitation that treats substance use and co-occurring mental health conditions together, and intensive outpatient and outpatient care. Treatment begins with an assessment and can draw on psychological and psychiatric evaluation, medication management, and individual, family, marital, group and faith-based counseling. A peer-support service is open to adults in Upper Bucks and Upper Montgomery counties who have Medical Assistance or may qualify for county funding. Medicaid, Medicare, private and military insurance are accepted, along with state funding, self-pay and a sliding scale.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Allied Addiction Recovery is an outpatient drug and alcohol treatment provider in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with additional locations in Greensburg and Washington. The program offers both medication-assisted treatment using Suboxone and Vivitrol and drug-free treatment, and accepts Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance.

Clearbrook Manor offers residential, intensive outpatient and outpatient addiction treatment in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The program serves adults and young adults, including veterans and people with co-occurring mental health conditions, and uses cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing and trauma-focused counseling. Buprenorphine is available for opioid use disorder.