Our mission
We make addiction and recovery information easier to understand and act on. If you’re trying to make sense of treatment options, help someone you love, or find support in recovery, our guides explain what the terms mean, what questions to ask, and where to look next. Making harm reduction information easier to find and understand is part of that mission.
What guides our work
- Respect for the person.
- We write about addiction without shame or labels that reduce people to their substance use. We recognize that people come to recovery with different needs, goals, and circumstances.
- Evidence in plain language.
- We aim to explain what research and clinical guidance say, make sources easy to find, and be clear about uncertainty. Our guides help you prepare for conversations with qualified care providers.
- Editorial independence.
- We keep editorial decisions separate from sponsorship. Any paid placement is labeled, and payment does not determine what our guides recommend.
- Direct access to providers.
- When we publish facility listings, our standard is to give you a way to contact the provider directly. Our policy prohibits buying, selling, brokering, or passing treatment inquiries to providers.
Board and governance
Our governance plan includes a board for the planned Kick the Habit foundation. Its proposed responsibilities include protecting the foundation’s mission, overseeing conflicts of interest, and setting expectations for clinical accuracy and editorial integrity.
We want the board to include expertise in addiction care and public health alongside perspectives from people with lived experience and families. Those perspectives would help the foundation identify where people struggle to find clear, trustworthy information.
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