NJ Addiction Facilities Directory

This is an editorial directory of licensed addiction treatment facilities in New Jersey. It is not a top-ten list, a ranking, or a lead-generation funnel. Every facility listed was pulled from the SAMHSA 2024 National Directory of Drug and Alcohol Abuse Treatment Programs, cross-referenced with public licensure and accreditation records, and published with a visible correction link so readers, patients, families, and operators can flag errors.

The New Jersey addiction treatment landscape is wider than most searchers realize. As of the 2024 SAMHSA survey, 328 licensed NJ facilities offered substance use treatment — spread across all 21 counties, operating at every level of care from outpatient counseling through medically-supervised inpatient detox. Publicly-available data covers the who, where, and what of each one; what the SERP usually lacks is the how-to-read-it layer. This page is that layer.

How New Jersey licenses and oversees addiction treatment facilities

Addiction treatment in New Jersey is licensed by the NJ Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS), a unit of the Department of Human Services. DMHAS licensure is the baseline: without it, a facility cannot legally hold itself out as a substance use treatment provider in the state. Licensure covers clinical staffing requirements, documentation practices, patient rights, and facility safety — but licensure alone does not evaluate clinical outcomes.

A few specific categories of NJ treatment facility operate under additional federal oversight:

• Opioid Treatment Programs (OTPs) — facilities that dispense methadone are certified by SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment in addition to state licensure. OTP certification is a meaningful credential.
• Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) — community health centers providing behavioral health services meet HRSA requirements in addition to any state SUD licensing.
• VA facilities — veterans treatment through VA New Jersey Health Care System operates under federal VA standards rather than state DMHAS licensure.

What DMHAS licensure does not tell you is whether a facility’s program design matches evidence-based practice, whether staff turnover is reasonable, or whether the facility routinely admits patients it can’t clinically serve. Those judgments require the accreditation layer.

The accreditation layer: what CARF and Joint Commission actually tell you

Two voluntary accreditors set the nationally-recognized behavioral-health quality bar:

CARF International (Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities) accredits programs — not just facilities — against standards that cover intake, clinical treatment planning, staff qualifications, outcomes measurement, and continuous quality improvement. CARF accreditation is earned in three-year cycles and is relatively common among mid-to-large NJ addiction treatment providers.

The Joint Commission (TJC) runs a separate accreditation under its Behavioral Health Care & Human Services program. TJC tends to be more common among hospital-based and health-system-affiliated addiction programs (where TJC already accredits the parent hospital). TJC focuses heavily on patient safety, medication management, and clinical leadership.

In practice: a facility with both CARF and TJC accreditation has committed to two independent external quality reviews and is demonstrably serious about structural standards. A facility with neither isn’t necessarily low-quality — small outpatient practices in particular may choose not to pursue voluntary accreditation because of cost — but for larger residential programs, accreditation is a meaningful signal.

SAMHSA’s directory self-reports CARF and Joint Commission status. We flag both on every profile. For our 25 flagship profiles we also verified accreditation directly against the accreditors’ current rosters — where a SAMHSA self-report disagrees with the current accreditor record, we state the discrepancy openly.

How to read a facility profile on this site

Every profile on this site is organized identically. Reading the first one carefully teaches you how to read the other 327.

1. Header block — facility name, primary address, primary phone, county. If multiple locations exist under the same organization, we list them and link each to its own profile.
2. At-a-glance data — licensure status, accreditation flags, levels of care offered, populations served, payer acceptance. Every field sourced from public data we cite.
3. Program overview — descriptive and factual. We don’t run marketing copy. If a facility’s public data doesn’t specify a program detail, we say that rather than fill the gap with generic language.
4. What this facility is best known for — based on accreditation, specialty designations, and public reporting. Not based on the facility’s own marketing website.
5. Who it’s typically appropriate for — clinical framing. “Everyone welcome” marketing is not an answer; this section describes the populations and presentations the facility’s public data suggests it’s equipped to serve.
6. What to verify before calling — the concrete checks a reader should make against the NJ DMHAS licensure lookup, their insurance’s provider directory, and the facility’s admissions intake before making a decision.
7. Disclosure block — sources used, last-verified date, correction link, “inclusion is not endorsement” statement.

That last line matters. Every profile we publish, including flagship profiles, carries the same disclosure. Appearance on this directory is not a recommendation. It’s public-record coverage of a licensed provider.

The public data sources behind every profile

We use exactly these sources. No aggregator data. No pay-for-placement lists.

• SAMHSA 2024 National Directory of Drug and Alcohol Abuse Treatment Programs — facility identity, services offered, populations served, payment accepted, self-reported accreditation.
• NJ DMHAS — state licensure status, NJ-specific program designations, publicly-funded provider roster.
• CARF International — current accredited facility roster (NJ subset).
• The Joint Commission — current Behavioral Health Care accredited facility roster (NJ subset).
• ReachNJ.gov — NJ state referral and publicly-funded-treatment network.

If a piece of information on a profile cannot be traced back to one of those five sources (or a primary-source document the facility itself publishes, such as a state licensure database entry), we don’t publish it.

Browse facilities by county

Each county page lists licensed facilities in that county with filterable views by program type, payer, and accreditation, plus county-specific context on overdose trends and recovery resources.

• Atlantic County · Bergen County · Burlington County · Camden County · Cape May County · Cumberland County · Essex County
• Gloucester County · Hudson County · Hunterdon County · Mercer County · Middlesex County · Monmouth County · Morris County
• Ocean County · Passaic County · Salem County · Somerset County · Sussex County · Union County · Warren County

Browse by program type

• Inpatient and residential treatment — 24-hour clinical care
• Outpatient, IOP, and PHP — the three non-residential levels of care, compared
• Medically supervised detox — including alcohol and benzodiazepine withdrawal management
• Medication-assisted treatment — buprenorphine, methadone, naltrexone providers
• Dual diagnosis programs — facilities with integrated co-occurring SUD and mental health capability
• Sober living and recovery housing — with a verification-first framing for identifying legitimate operators

Browse by insurance and payer

• Horizon BCBS · Aetna · Cigna · UnitedHealthcare · AmeriHealth · NJ FamilyCare (Medicaid)

Browse by specialty population

• Women’s programs · Men’s programs · Teen and adolescent programs · LGBTQ-affirming programs · Veteran programs

Free and state-funded treatment

If cost is the obstacle, start at our free and state-funded treatment page. It’s an editorial explainer — not a list of “free rehabs” — that walks through what the word “free” actually means in New Jersey and names the six distinct pathways (NJ FamilyCare, DMHAS state-funded slots, the CARES program, Oxford House, SAMHSA federal grants, and sliding-scale providers) with realistic eligibility and waitlist guidance.

Found an error? Request a correction

Every profile on this site carries a pre-filled correction link in its disclosure block. If you’re a facility owner, a former patient, or an observer who sees something out of date or wrong, submit the correction and we’ll review it. Corrections we accept get updated with a new Last verified date.