Advertising Disclosure

Treatment Angel is free for anyone looking for addiction treatment. We pay for it by selling listing plans to treatment centers. Here is how that shows up on the site, and what money can't buy.

How paid placement is marked

Treatment centers can pay for a Pro or Premier plan. Wherever a paid plan puts a center in front of you, its listing carries a gold badge: Featured for Pro and Premier for Premier, so you can tell an ad from a regular listing. The "Featured Centers" row on center pages is also labeled Ads.

Paid centers appear:

  • first in search results for their area;
  • in searches near a city they choose (Pro) or anywhere in their state (Premier);
  • in the "Featured Centers" rows on other centers' pages, and first on our state pages and homepage.

Centers on a paid plan also don't show other centers on their own page.

How listings are ordered

In search results and lists, centers are sorted like this:

  1. Centers on an active paid plan (Premier, then Pro).
  2. Trust: paid centers we have verified come before other paid centers; then centers that manage their own listing; then listings no one from the center has claimed.
  3. Reviews: a better star rating from more reviews ranks higher, so a 4.7 from 120 reviews comes before a 5.0 from one.
  4. Centers that are equal on all of the above take turns at the top from day to day.

"Similar Treatment Centers" on a center's page is not paid: it shows centers that treat the same conditions in similar settings, verified centers first, then claimed, then the rest.

What money can't buy

Paying doesn't change a center's star rating or its reviews, and it doesn't change which searches a center matches for treatments, insurance or other filters: those come from what the center lists. A listing, a badge or a position on the page is not a recommendation or an endorsement of a center.

What the other badges mean

  • Verified A center on a paid plan whose owner's or manager's ID, business registration and state license our team has checked.
  • Claimed Someone from the center manages the listing and keeps it up to date.
  • Unverified or no badge: the center hasn't claimed the listing yet, or its claim is still being reviewed. Its details may come from public sources, so check them with the center.

Choosing a center

Before you decide, check a center's state license and accreditation, and ask about the treatment it offers, costs and your insurance. If you or someone you love needs help right now, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline), or call the SAMHSA National Helpline at 1-800-662-4357: free, confidential and open around the clock.

Questions

Questions about our listings or advertising? Contact us. Treatment centers can see our plans at Treatment Angel for Business.