Editorial & Corrections Policy

PlainRecovery turns the U.S. government's published treatment-facility data into facility, city, and state pages, plus plain-language guides. This page explains how those pages are produced, the standards we hold them to, and exactly how to flag a number that looks wrong.

How Our Pages Are Produced

PlainRecovery's facility, city, and state pages are generated programmatically from a single documented source: SAMHSA's National Substance Use and Mental Health Services Survey (N-SUMHSS), distributed publicly through FindTreatment.gov. We download the published facility records, load them into a structured database, and render each page from that database. The figures you see — facility counts, service availability (MAT, detox, residential, telehealth), and payment acceptance (Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance, sliding-fee) — are read directly from SAMHSA's records, not hand-typed and not estimated by us.

This is a data-publishing model: the same template renders every page so that all 17,974 facilities and every U.S. state are covered consistently. We are transparent that these directory pages are produced programmatically from the source dataset rather than written one at a time. The editorial work goes into the pipeline (how records are sourced, normalized, and computed), the methodology, and the written guides — not into hand-authoring thousands of near-identical facility pages, which would add no accuracy and invite inconsistency.

What We Do Not Do

  • We do not invent, estimate, or "fill in" facility details that SAMHSA did not report. A field that is blank in the source is shown as not reported, never guessed.
  • We do not rank, rate, or endorse individual facilities. Listings reflect SAMHSA data, not a quality judgment by PlainRecovery.
  • We do not accept payment, sponsorship, or promoted placement from treatment providers, hospitals, or manufacturers. No facility can pay to be listed, removed, or featured.
  • We do not provide medical, clinical, or counseling advice. See our disclaimer.

Accuracy & Currency

SAMHSA's N-SUMHSS is a point-in-time annual survey. Individual facility details — services offered, insurance accepted, hours, and even whether a facility is still open — can change between survey years. Payment acceptance and service availability are self-reported by facilities to SAMHSA. For these reasons we recommend calling a facility directly to verify current information before visiting, and we say so on every facility page. We update PlainRecovery within roughly 30 days of each new SAMHSA release, and our methodology page records the dataset vintage currently in use.

Corrections

If a number or facility detail on PlainRecovery looks wrong, we want to fix it. First, check whether the discrepancy exists in the underlying SAMHSA record (most facility-level details originate there and are corrected at the source). If the error is in how PlainRecovery computed, labeled, or displayed the data, email hello@plainrecovery.com with the page URL and the specific figure. We correct confirmed display or computation errors promptly and re-run the affected pages. Facility-level corrections that originate in SAMHSA's data should also be reported to SAMHSA so they propagate to the official source and every site that uses it.

Who We Are

PlainRecovery is an independent treatment-facility directory published by Kiznis Studio. It is not affiliated with SAMHSA, FindTreatment.gov, or any government agency. Kiznis Studio is responsible for the data pipeline, methodology, editorial standards, and corrections described on this page.