New York City Treatment & Recovery Resources
Clearer next steps for addiction treatment and recovery in NYC
NYC Recovery Navigation Network helps individuals and families understand local treatment options, compare licensed providers, prepare questions for admissions teams, and find public recovery resources across all five boroughs.
We provide information and navigation support. We do not provide medical care, detoxification, diagnosis, or emergency services.
Choose Your Next Step
Compare NYC treatment options
See how programs differ by level of care, borough, payment, and language access.
Open the directoryUnderstand levels of care
Detox, residential, outpatient, IOP, PHP, and medication treatment explained in plain language.
Explore care optionsLearn what to ask about insurance
Questions that help you confirm network status, authorization, and out-of-pocket costs.
Insurance and paymentFind family and recovery support
Preparing for a conversation, caregiver support, privacy, and peer services.
For familiesView crisis and overdose resources
Public emergency, crisis, and overdose resources, listed without commercial content.
Crisis resourcesExplore Care Options
Levels of care describe how much structure and medical oversight a program provides. They are not ranked from worst to best.
Withdrawal management and detox
Short-term medically supervised care that helps a person stop using a substance safely. It is a starting point, not a full course of treatment.
Learn what this level of care can involve. A licensed provider determines clinical eligibility.
Inpatient and residential treatment
Structured live-in care with daily programming, typically after withdrawal management or when outpatient care has not been enough.
Learn what this level of care can involve. A licensed provider determines clinical eligibility.
Outpatient, IOP, and PHP
Scheduled treatment while living at home, ranging from weekly counseling to day-long programming several times a week.
Learn what this level of care can involve. A licensed provider determines clinical eligibility.
Medication for addiction treatment
Medications such as buprenorphine, methadone, or naltrexone, prescribed and monitored by licensed clinicians alongside counseling and support.
Learn what this level of care can involve. A licensed provider determines clinical eligibility.
Mental health and co-occurring needs
Programs that address depression, anxiety, trauma, or other conditions together with substance use rather than separately.
Learn what this level of care can involve. A licensed provider determines clinical eligibility.
Recovery support and peer services
Non-clinical support including peer coaching, mutual-aid meetings, family groups, and recovery community centers.
Learn what this level of care can involve. A licensed provider determines clinical eligibility.
Find Resources by Borough
Manhattan
Manhattan has the city's densest concentration of hospital-based programs, outpatient clinics, and medication treatment sites, along with long waits at some high-demand programs.
Manhattan resourcesBrooklyn
Brooklyn's treatment landscape is spread across many neighborhoods, with strong community-based outpatient and peer-support options and multilingual services in several areas.
Brooklyn resourcesQueens
Queens is the city's most linguistically diverse borough, and language access is often the deciding factor when comparing programs.
Queens resourcesBronx
The Bronx has a long-standing network of opioid treatment programs, harm reduction services, and hospital-linked care, with high demand across several neighborhoods.
Bronx resourcesStaten Island
Staten Island has fewer programs than other boroughs, so availability, travel, and waitlist timing matter more when comparing options.
Staten Island resourcesHow Navigation Works
- Step 1
Share what kind of help you are seeking.
- Step 2
Review questions, public resources, and provider options.
- Step 3
Contact providers directly or request navigation support.
- Step 4
Confirm admission, insurance, and clinical eligibility directly with the licensed provider and insurer.
We do not decide medical necessity, guarantee admission, or guarantee insurance coverage.
A Better Way to Compare Options
- Direct provider websites and phone numbers, not a single routing number
- Program type, borough, and payment filters
- Links to official public resources, including the OASAS program search
- Last-verified dates on every listing
- Transparent relationship labels where applicable
For Families
Families often carry the search. We cover how to prepare for a conversation, what to ask a provider, what to do in an emergency, what privacy rules mean in practice, and where caregivers can find their own support.
Read the family guideTrust & Transparency
Who operates this service
Our role, our boundaries, and who is accountable for this site.
Read the policyHow we are funded
Our funding and financial-relationship disclosures, in plain language.
Read the policyHow providers are listed
Listing criteria, verification sources, and correction requests.
Read the policyCrisis and public resources
These public services may be appropriate if you want immediate crisis support or a government-operated resource.
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
Call or text 988 for free, confidential crisis support, 24/7.
Call or text 988NYS OASAS HOPEline
New York State's 24/7 addiction support line operated by OASAS.
Call 1-877-8-HOPENYOASAS Provider and Program Search
Official New York State directory of certified addiction treatment programs.
Open OASAS directoryNYC Health + Hospitals substance use services
Public hospital system substance use treatment information.
Open NYC H+H servicesRequest Information or Navigation Support
Tell us what you are trying to figure out. We respond with information, public resources, and provider options you can contact directly. This form is not monitored for emergencies.