Medical Detox at the Jersey Shore & South Jersey

Where New Jersey detoxes

The state’s 2024 statewide report counts 15,526 residential detox admissions at New Jersey programs. Programs in these nine southern and Shore counties reported 11,882 of them, about three in four. Atlantic County programs alone reported 4,168 and Monmouth County programs 3,697, together about half the state.

Residents of the nine counties had 9,258 residential detox admissions themselves. The gap is people coming in from outside the region. A bed in Mays Landing or Marlboro is not reserved for the Shore. Call early, and call more than one program.

Today our statewide list has 19 licensed detox programs in the region, out of 47. Only one is a hospital unit. Twelve take Medicaid according to their own website or FindTreatment.gov, six do not, and one we could not confirm. Phone numbers and payer details are in our statewide list of licensed detox programs. The 2024 counts are admissions, not people, and they cover only what treatment providers report to the state’s NJSAMS system.

Four parts of one region

The Shore: Ocean and Monmouth

Ocean County has three licensed programs: two inpatient programs in Toms River and an outpatient program in Bayville that treats opioid withdrawal only. Monmouth County has three: two inpatient programs on one shared campus in Marlboro and an outpatient detox in Freehold. The 2024 data split them sharply. Monmouth programs reported 3,697 residential detox admissions; Ocean programs reported 62, while Ocean residents had 1,320. Most of those residents were admitted somewhere else.

Atlantic County

Six licensed programs, more than any other county in New Jersey: two in Mays Landing, one each in Galloway and Atlantic City, and two in Hammonton, one inpatient and one outpatient. Our Atlantic City and Hammonton guides cover them. Two of the six, the Galloway and Atlantic City programs, do not take Medicaid according to their own website or FindTreatment.gov.

The Delaware Valley side: Camden, Burlington and Gloucester

Camden County has four programs, including the region’s only hospital detox unit, New Vision at Jefferson Stratford Hospital. Burlington County has two, in Pemberton and Medford; the Pemberton program’s own site says it serves men. Gloucester County has one, in Williamstown. Camden programs reported only 39 residential detox admissions in 2024 against 1,765 for Camden residents, so a Camden resident who needed residential detox that year usually left the county for it.

The far south: Cumberland, Cape May and Salem

None of the three has a licensed detox program today. Cape May County and Salem County programs reported no residential detox admissions in 2024. Cumberland County programs reported 1,580, but our October 2026 check of the state license directory found no licensed detox program in the county now. A residential treatment program in Bridgeton closed in July 2025, according to a notice its operator filed with the state Department of Labor. Residents of all three counties should plan on a drive to a neighboring county for detox, and then step down to outpatient care closer to home.

Medication you can start without a detox bed

For opioids, the region’s depth is in its opioid treatment programs, not its detox beds. Twenty of New Jersey’s 42 opioid treatment programs are in these nine counties, five of them in Ocean County alone, and all 20 take Medicaid according to their own site or FindTreatment.gov. Cumberland has two, in Vineland and Bridgeton, and Cape May has one, in Cape May Court House, even though neither county has a detox program. Salem has none on our list. Our methadone clinic guide lists them all.

That matters because medication for opioid use disorder does not require a detox stay first. For most NJ FamilyCare members, the state still pays opioid treatment programs directly, so ask the program, not the health plan, about methadone. Opioid treatment programs move into the NJ FamilyCare plans in January 2027.

On the state’s most recent provider list (June 2024), every county in the region has a provider in its Opioid Overdose Recovery Program, which sends peer recovery specialists to meet people after an overdose. If you are treated for an overdose in a South Jersey emergency department, ask for one.

Detox in Hammonton

The gap between Camden and Atlantic City narrowed in 2018, when Pyramid Healthcare opened a licensed detox and residential program at 600 S. White Horse Pike in Hammonton, and it is expected to narrow again. Periscope Behavioral Health, which publishes this site, is opening a second medical detox at 820 S. White Horse Pike in Hammonton, roughly the midpoint of the White Horse Pike between the two cities, expected in Summer 2027. The confirmed date will be posted on the Hammonton detox page. Until the Hammonton detox opens, the programs above are the map; the Hammonton city guide covers what is available in the area today.

A caution about marketing

Because this region’s overdose crisis is well documented, its residents are heavily targeted by out-of-state treatment marketing: call centers offering free flights to Florida programs, often with undisclosed financial arrangements. Some people do well traveling for treatment. But leaving the state means leaving your insurance network in some cases, your family support, and your aftercare options behind. Before accepting a flight from a stranger, read how to vet a facility and ask the questions in it. A legitimate program answers them without pressure.

Fairness requires one disclosure here: our publisher’s admissions line also talks with callers about options in Florida, including facilities Periscope operates. Ask any line you call, ours included, who owns the program it suggests.

New Jersey law backs the caution. Under N.J.S.A. 2C:40A-6, amended in August 2025, offering or receiving anything of value, in cash or in kind, in connection with referring patients to a treatment facility, a recovery residence or a clinical lab is a third-degree crime, unless the payment does not vary with the number of patients referred, the treatment provided or the insurance benefits paid. A free sober house bed tied to one program is a red flag.

Paying and getting in

With NJ FamilyCare or no insurance, call the IME Addictions Access Center first, at 1-844-276-2777, 24/7. It screens callers and refers them to treatment, including state-funded treatment, and it authorizes residential detox and rehab for most NJ FamilyCare members. Outpatient and hospital detox already go through the member’s NJ FamilyCare plan; residential care moves into the plans in January 2027. ReachNJ, the state treatment line, answers 24/7 at 1-844-732-2465 for anyone. Periscope Behavioral Health, our publisher’s admissions line, at (888) 313-3583, can also help; as noted above, it also discusses options in Florida, including facilities Periscope operates. What a plan covers depends on the plan and the facility’s network status.

Under New Jersey law P.L.2017, c.28, fully insured New Jersey plans and the State Health Benefits and School Employees’ plans cannot require prior authorization for the first 180 days per plan year of in-network treatment your own physician, psychologist or psychiatrist finds medically necessary, or, during those same 180 days, for outpatient prescription drugs that treat substance use disorder, such as buprenorphine and naltrexone, when that clinician finds them medically necessary. Self-funded employer plans, Medicare and Medicaid are not covered by that rule, so verify with the plan.

Dangerous withdrawal does not wait for a callback. Federal law (EMTALA) requires hospitals with emergency departments to screen anyone who comes in and stabilize an emergency, whatever their insurance or ability to pay. In the far south, with the nearest detox bed a long drive away, that emergency department is the first stop for a seizure, confusion or chest pain.