Detox Centers in New Jersey: 47 Licensed Programs, by County

Who to call first

There are three ways in. Which one fits depends mostly on your coverage.

1. Call a program directly. Each program in the directory below lists a phone number. Ask whether it has a bed or an outpatient slot today, whether it takes your insurance, and what it needs from you.
2. Call ReachNJ at 1-844-732-2465. This is the state’s referral line. A trained specialist answers 24/7 and refers you to a local provider regardless of insurance or ability to pay.
3. Call the IME Addictions Access Center at 1-844-276-2777 if you have NJ FamilyCare or no insurance. It answers 24/7, screens you and refers you to treatment, and can help with problems such as a wait for a bed.

Expect the first call to cover what you use, how much, when you last used, whether you have had withdrawal seizures, and what medications you take. Wording varies by program. Our step-by-step guide to getting into detox in NJ covers what to bring and what to do if no bed is open.

Licensed detox programs by county

Hospital, inpatient or outpatient detox

The programs below fall into three settings. Clinicians match a person to one using the ASAM Criteria, which ASAM describes as the most widely used set of standards for addiction care placement. Its third-edition withdrawal management levels run from 1-WM (outpatient) to 4-WM (hospital). The fourth edition, released in 2023, changes how withdrawal management fits into its levels. Many programs still use the older labels, and so does this page.

• Hospital detox unit (4-WM, medically managed). A unit inside a hospital, with physicians directing care around the clock. It is for severe or unstable withdrawal, or medical and psychiatric problems that need a hospital. We list 6 hospital units. None of the sources we reviewed states their ASAM level, so the directory says so instead of guessing.
• Inpatient residential detox (3.7-WM, medically monitored). You stay in a licensed facility with 24-hour nursing and physicians available. This is what most people mean by “inpatient detox” in New Jersey, and it is the largest group here: 31 programs.
• Outpatient (ambulatory) detox (1-WM or 2-WM). You sleep at home and come in for assessment and medication. 2-WM adds hours of monitoring on site. We list 10 outpatient programs, and several treat opioid withdrawal only.

About the “Level” line in each listing: where a program states its own ASAM level, we show it. Otherwise the level is inferred from its state license type. An inpatient withdrawal management license is shown as 3.7-WM and an ambulatory license as 2-WM, marked “inferred from license type.” Ask the program to confirm.

How to choose a detox program

Start with safety. ASAM’s alcohol withdrawal guideline says outpatient withdrawal management can typically be done safely for people with limited or mitigated risk factors. Past withdrawal seizures or delirium tremens, use of other substances, serious medical illness, psychiatric symptoms or little support at home push toward inpatient or hospital care. Say all of it on the first call. The program can only place you safely if it knows.

Then ask each program:

• Does it treat withdrawal from the substances you use? Some outpatient programs treat opioids only.
• Will it continue medications you already take, including buprenorphine or methadone?
• What happens after detox? Detox is stabilization, not treatment. Ask how it arranges residential care, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient or medication after discharge.
• Is it in network with your plan, and what will you owe?

Our guide to choosing a facility lists ten questions to ask before admission.

Paying for detox in New Jersey

Commercial insurance

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. The state Department of Banking and Insurance says ID cards issued in New Jersey must state whether the coverage is fully insured or self-funded. Call the member services number on the card, ask whether the program is in network for withdrawal management, and write down the name of the person you spoke to. Our Horizon BCBS guide walks through the calls for Horizon members.

NJ FamilyCare (Medicaid)

28 of the 47 programs below accept Medicaid according to their own website or FindTreatment.gov. That does not mean a program works with every NJ FamilyCare plan, so give your plan name when you call. You can apply for NJ FamilyCare at 1-800-701-0710. Hospitals and substance use treatment providers that are approved for it can grant short-term presumptive eligibility. See our NJ Medicaid guide for the managed care plans.

State funding when there is no insurance

Call the IME Addictions Access Center at 1-844-276-2777. It answers 24/7, screens callers and refers them to treatment, and its financial screening checks whether you can get state-funded treatment. The only way to know for sure whether you qualify for NJ FamilyCare is to apply, at 1-800-701-0710 on weekdays or at njfamilycare.org.

Counties where we found no licensed detox program

We found no licensed withdrawal management program in Cape May, Cumberland, Salem or Sussex County. Residents there go to a neighboring county. The closest listed options:

• Cape May County: Atlantic County programs in Atlantic City, Mays Landing, Galloway Township and Hammonton. We could not confirm whether a Cape May hospital runs a detox unit. See our Cape May County guide.
• Cumberland County: Gloucester County (Williamstown) and Atlantic County (Hammonton, Mays Landing). Our Cumberland County guide covers local outpatient care.
• Salem County: Gloucester County (Williamstown) and Camden County (Blackwood, Stratford, Cherry Hill). See our Salem County guide.
• Sussex County: Warren County (Blairstown), Passaic County (Ringwood) and Morris County (Boonton Township). See our Sussex County guide.

If you have NJ FamilyCare or no insurance, the IME at 1-844-276-2777 can screen you and look for an open bed outside your county. If withdrawal turns dangerous, go to the nearest emergency room: hospitals that take Medicare must screen you and stabilize an emergency condition.

How this list was built

We started from every site listed with a New Jersey withdrawal management license in the NJSAMS Treatment Directory, the addiction treatment directory run by the state Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services. The NJ Department of Health issues those licenses. Hospital detox units operate under hospital licenses and do not appear in that search, so we added them from SAMHSA’s FindTreatment.gov and checked them against NJ DOH hospital licenses. We then matched each program to its FindTreatment.gov record for payment types and checked its own website. Where a website would not load, the listing says so.

Left out, and why:

• Methadone and buprenorphine clinics that list “outpatient detox” on FindTreatment.gov but hold no withdrawal management license. Their detox is usually a medication taper.
• License holders whose own website shows no detox service, or a location its operator no longer lists.
• An adolescent program that advertises detox but does not appear in the state’s withdrawal management license list.
• The VA New Jersey Health Care System in East Orange, a federal facility outside state licensing. Eligible veterans can ask the VA about its detox services.

Phone numbers come from each program’s own website or SAMHSA’s FindTreatment.gov. If a program belongs to a chain, the number can be an admissions line shared with the chain’s other centers. If a listing is wrong or a program has closed, tell us and we will check it.