Medical Detox in Salem County, NJ

Is there a detox in Salem County?

No. The state’s license directory showed no withdrawal-management program in Salem County when we checked it on October 1, 2026, and SAMHSA’s FindTreatment.gov showed no detox there either.

The gap is wider than detox. Programs in Salem County reported 25 treatment admissions in 2024, all of them standard outpatient care. County residents had 1,052 admissions that year, including 203 residential detox admissions. Almost all of Salem County’s treatment happens somewhere else.

The two detox programs Salem County pays for

Salem County’s Division of Mental Health & Addiction Services publishes the programs it funds, together with the state. For sub-acute detox, the list has two. Drive times on this page are our estimates from OpenStreetMap road data, without traffic, rounded to the nearest five minutes.

• Maryville, 1903 Grant Avenue, Williamstown (Gloucester County); admissions (855) 823-3428. About thirty minutes from Woodstown and forty-five from Salem city.
• New Hope Integrated Behavioral Healthcare (listed by the county as New Hope Foundation), 80 Conover Road, Marlboro (Monmouth County), (732) 946-3030. About two hours from Salem city, without traffic.

Both also provide the county-funded residential treatment that follows detox. Both appear on the state license list, and FindTreatment.gov lists both as taking Medicaid. The county’s outpatient partner is ACENDA in Pittsgrove.

Drive times from Woodstown, Salem and Penns Grove

The county list is not the only choice. These are the closest licensed programs by town; drive times are estimated the same way.

• Woodstown and the Route 40 side: Maryville in Williamstown, about thirty minutes. The Haven Detox in Blackwood (Camden County), about thirty-five.
• Salem city and Pennsville: Maryville and the Haven, each about forty-five minutes. The Recovery Village Cherry Hill at Cooper, about forty-five to fifty.
• Penns Grove: the Cherry Hill programs and the Haven, about forty minutes. Maryville, about forty-five.

For Pennsville and Penns Grove, Delaware is close. Our list covers New Jersey licenses only; if you are considering a Delaware program, ask your plan first whether it covers treatment out of state.

Where Salem County residents actually get treated

Of 998 treatment discharges of Salem County residents in 2024, 388 (39%) were from programs in Gloucester County, 183 (18%) from Atlantic and 147 (15%) from Cumberland. Only 23 (2%) were from programs in Salem County. Opioids drive much of the demand: heroin or other opioids were the primary drug in about 39% of residents’ 2024 admissions, and alcohol in 33%.

The Inspira emergency departments

Salem County has two Inspira hospitals with emergency departments: Inspira Medical Center Mannington, formerly Salem Medical Center, on Salem-Woodstown Road, and Inspira Medical Center Elmer. The state’s Opioid Overdose Recovery Program, which sends peer recovery specialists to meet people after an overdose, is run for Salem County, on the state’s June 2024 provider list, by The Southwest Council in Vineland (856-794-1011).

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. With no detox in the county, the emergency department is the safe place for dangerous alcohol or benzodiazepine withdrawal. A seizure, confusion, hallucinations or chest pain during withdrawal means 911, and anyone who has had a withdrawal seizure before belongs in an emergency department, not at home waiting for a bed.

The office behind the county list

The Division of Mental Health & Addiction Services, in the Salem County Department of Health & Human Services at 110 Fifth Street in Salem (856-935-7510), publishes the county-funded detox list above. Call it, or the IME, to ask how a county resident gets into that county-funded care. The county’s Municipal Alliance coordinator is at the same number, extension 8304.

Paying for it

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.

Commercial insurance is a separate question. 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. Self-funded employer plans, Medicare and Medicaid are not covered by that rule. Periscope Behavioral Health, our publisher’s admissions line, at (888) 313-3583, can also help. Our insurance guides cover each major plan.

Step-down care is the hard part here

With 25 in-county admissions in 2024, Salem has very little treatment to step down into. Before discharge, ask the detox program to book the next level of care, and ask whether it can be closer to home; ACENDA in Pittsgrove is the county’s outpatient partner. Keep any medication started in detox going, and carry naloxone, because tolerance drops while craving does not. Our aftercare guide covers the rest of the first year.