METHODOLOGY

→ America’s “Best Addiction Treatment Centers 2020” highlights the nation’s top facilities based on quality of service, reputation and accreditation relative to in-state competition. Facilities in the 20 states with the highest number of addiction treatment centers, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), were included in the survey.

• Inpatient/residential and long-term addiction treatment centers are included; centers that only offer outpatient or short-term addiction treatment services were excluded.

• The Top 10% of facilities per state were awarded (200 nationwide): This number is based on the amount of facilities within the specific state that meet the aforementioned scope of requirements, and therefore varies among the individual states.* The state of California had the most addiction treatment centers awarded with 55, while Colorado is represented with five addiction treatment centers.

The Reputation score is based on two subscores, for recommendations and for quality. In cooperation with Newsweek, Statista invited thousands of medical experts (therapists, counselors, medical doctors, administration & staff working in addiction treatment facilities) to an online peer-to-peer survey. Additionally, experts from all over the U.S. could participate in the survey of the Best Addiction Treatment Centers by State on newsweek.com. They were asked to recommend addiction treatment facilities by considering the quality of care, quality of service, quality of follow-up care and accommodations & amenities.

Additionally, participants were asked to rate the facilities in four quality dimensions which influence the quality of rehabilitation facilities. Participants were asked to differentiate between these variables:

• Quality of care (e.g. treatments/therapies, consultation with doctor/therapist, psychological support)

• Quality of service (e.g. meals, leisure activites)

• Quality of follow-up care

(e.g. support meetings, individual counseling)

• Accommodation & Amenities (e.g. size of room, quality of furnishing)

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) provides data for addiction treatment centers. Specifically, SAMHSA lists all relevant accreditations that the addiction treatment centers have. Statista used the SAMHSA data described above to determine the Accreditation score of addiction treatment centers. Each of the nine different accreditations is weighted with 1/9 or 11.11% toward the accreditation score of each facility.

The overall rating is the weighted average of the overall reputation score and the accreditation score. The weight for the overall reputation score is 80% while the weight of the SAMHSA based accreditation score is 20% toward the total score of each facility. Subsequently facilities were ranked within their respective state based on their total score achieved.

A full description of the methodology can be found at www.newsweek.com/batc-2020.

* For states where ranking the top 10% of facilities would result in fewer than five facilities, the top five facilities were awarded, resulting in a maximum share of 17% per state.