The Recovery Village aims to connect more people to the life-saving treatment they need for addiction and co-occurring mental health disorders. Educating the public about the nature of behavioral health conditions and treatment options helps lower barriers to recovery and change lives. Throughout our website’s medical web pages, blogs, news, related articles and continuing education webinars, we deliver evidence-based content with medically reviewed facts and the latest scientific research. Our mission is to help others by delivering trustworthy, accurate and up-to-date medical and clinical information from a group of passionate contributing experts.
Addiction and mental health are sensitive topics. That’s why The Recovery Village Editorial Team carefully vets and reviews every piece of content we publish.
Each medical reviewer is a licensed behavioral health or medical professional who uses their knowledge, experience and access to resources to analyze and confirm every statistic, study and medical claim on the page. They’ll review every cited source and add their own, using information from:
Everything we publish about addiction, withdrawal, medication and mental health is health information that people act on. This page explains who writes it, who reviews it, what we will and will not say, and how to tell us when we have something wrong. It applies to every article, program page and resource on this website.
Clinical content on this site is medically reviewed by Dr. Kevin Wandler, MD, working with our editorial team of licensed clinicians, pharmacists, nurses and counsellors. Reviewers hold current credentials in behavioural health or medicine and are named on their own biography pages, which are linked from every byline.
A medical reviewer reads the full article, checks every clinical claim against the cited source, adds or replaces sources where needed, and signs off before publication. An article that has not completed review is not published.
We cite primary sources wherever one exists, and we prefer, in this order: peer-reviewed clinical literature; U.S. federal health agencies including SAMHSA, NIDA, NIAAA, NIH and the CDC; the FDA for anything about a medication; and professional bodies such as ASAM and the APA. We link directly to the source so you can read it yourself.
Every clinical article is scheduled for review at least once every 24 months, and sooner when the underlying guidance changes: a new FDA label or safety communication, a revised federal clinical guideline, or a change to our own programs. Each article shows the date it was published and, where it has genuinely changed since, the date it was last updated. If an article shows no update date, it has not been revised since publication.
If you believe something on this site is inaccurate, out of date or unclear, please tell us through our contact page. Tell us the page and what you believe is wrong. We review every report. When we correct a substantive clinical error we update the article, refresh its review date, and note the change on the page itself rather than editing it silently.
Our editorial team writes to inform, not to sell. Medical reviewers have no role in admissions or marketing decisions, and no article is written or altered to favour a particular program. Where an article mentions care we provide, it says so plainly.
If you are in immediate danger, call 911. In the United States you can also call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, 24 hours a day.
If you have questions about insurance, treatment options, or next steps, our admissions team can answer in minutes.
All calls are confidential.
