Editorial policy

Who owns this site

SubstanceAbuseTreatment.ai is owned and operated by ZSK Management, which also holds ownership interests in behavioral health treatment providers. We say that plainly because this site publishes guidance about choosing treatment, and you deserve to know who is behind it while you read.

Two things are true at once, and both belong on the record. We do not sell leads, take placement or referral fees, or accept payment from treatment programs in exchange for coverage or position — no article on this site is for sale. And the company behind the site operates in the same industry the site writes about. That is a real conflict of interest, which is why our guidance points readers toward independent verification — state license lookups, FindTreatment.gov, and the questions we think you should ask any provider, including one we might own.

We do not name or recommend specific facilities anywhere on this site, and we do not run a call center.

How we source content

• We prefer federal and professional sources: SAMHSA, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the CDC, the FDA, ASAM, NIAAA, America's Poison Centers, and peer-reviewed literature.
• We link out to primary sources so you can check our work instead of taking our word for it. Sources are listed at the foot of each article.
• We avoid statistics we cannot trace to a named, dated source. Where a number is commonly repeated but poorly supported, we leave it out.
• Where the evidence is limited, mixed, or still emerging, we say so rather than writing with more confidence than the research earns.

What we do not do

• We do not diagnose, and we do not tell an individual reader which level of care they need. That requires a clinician who can review a full history.
• We do not publish dosing instructions, taper schedules, or anything else that substitutes for a prescriber.
• We do not publish outcome claims, success rates, or guarantees — ours or anyone else's.
• We do not invent author credentials or clinical reviewers. If a page has not been reviewed by a clinician, we do not imply that it has.
• We do not use fear or urgency to move readers toward a decision.

Affiliated sites

Some articles link to TeleMed Today, an educational site connected to the same ownership as this one. We link to it when it covers something in more depth than we do here — not because anyone paid for placement. We think it is better to tell you it is ours than to let it read as independent third-party corroboration.

Links to outside organizations — government agencies, hotlines, professional bodies — are provided for your convenience and are not endorsements.

Review and updates

Clinical guidance, phone numbers, and regulations change. We re-check crisis lines and frequently cited figures on a recurring basis, and we revise articles in place when the underlying source material moves. Where something could not be confirmed, we would rather label it than present it as settled.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it. Substantive corrections are made in place rather than quietly deleted, and we will take a well-argued challenge from a reader or clinician seriously.

Questions about this page can be sent through our contact page. We do not monitor that inbox around the clock, and it is not a crisis line.