Checking out Drug Treatment Centers by Their Web Sites
If you are looking at a treatment center website and can’t easily find information about where the treatment center is located or the address, move on.
It’s not good enough that the drug or alcohol treatment center comes up at the top of a search saying “Nevada Drug Rehab…” that doesn’t mean that they have treatment in Nevada or whatever state, it only means they understand how Google, MSN, or Yahoo! machines work for indexing web pages. In fact, if you’re reading this post on the day I write it and you go out to and Google “drug rehab Tennesee” or “Drug Rehab Nevada” you’ll find the number one site for both of these (and I bet many more states) doesn’t tell you if they have a treatment center in the state only that you should call to find out. In this case they are a national outfit that I won’t name here, but they don’t have treatment centers in all the states they show up for. And believe it or not this is true for several treatment sites that show up at the top of such searches.
So what’s my problem with this? Simple, it’s less than transparent and that is not a good basis for a relationship that your health and ultimately your life could depend on. What other things aren’t they telling you? There is absolutely no reason, even if it’s a national treatment chain, that they can’t give you a list of the states and cities they are operating in.
Want to see a list of what addiction treatment centers exist in your city or state - simply pop over to this addiction treatment center directory and click on your state or any other state. Ignore the listings immediately under the “ads by google” text, go down to the table, find your city and those are the treatment centers in your state.
Of course, not all websites need to give a physical address / location, but I think it is a must when it comes to treatment center websites.
