Help with drinking
Treatment for drinking that includes medication
Four medicines are FDA-approved for alcohol use disorder, and only 2.6% of people who have it get one. Search the programs that prescribe them, by ZIP code, insurance and setting.
Find a prescriber near you
6,617 programs that prescribe alcohol medication, 5,465 of them offering the monthly naltrexone shot.
Source: SAMHSA's FindTreatment.gov listing, pulled .
The help most people never hear about
In 2025, 25.7 million Americans aged 12 and older had alcohol use disorder, and 2.6% of them got medication for it, according to SAMHSA’s national survey. That’s despite four approved drugs: naltrexone as a daily pill or a monthly shot, acamprosate, and disulfiram. NIAAA says all the approved medications are nonaddictive, and any licensed prescriber can write naltrexone, including your regular doctor. How the four compare.
What this site does
The finder above searches the programs that tell SAMHSA they prescribe or give medication for alcohol use disorder. Every city and state page lays them side by side: which of the four drugs each one reports, whether it’s outpatient, residential or telehealth, and whether it takes Medicaid, Medicare or a sliding fee. Browse by state.
Nobody pays to be listed or ranked here, and nothing you type in the finder or the drink counter leaves your device.
If you’re worried about someone else
The classic surprise “intervention” lost a head-to-head trial to a gentler method. Families taught that method, called CRAFT, got 64% of their loved ones into treatment, against 30% for the confrontational approach. How to help someone who drinks.
Before you stop drinking
If you drink heavily every day, stopping suddenly can bring on withdrawal seizures. Talk to a clinician first; the medicines above are for staying stopped, not for getting through withdrawal. How to quit safely.