Drug and Alcohol Rehab Centers in Augusta, AR
This page lists drug and alcohol addiction treatment providers across Augusta, including nearby communities such as Patterson, Gregory, Russell, McCrory, and Tupelo. Scroll down to browse inpatient rehabs, outpatient programs, virtual treatment providers, counselors, and therapists locally.
Every Augusta addiction treatment center listed below, including facilities serving Bradford, Bald Knob, and Georgetown, is checked against bodies such as the Arkansas Department of Human Services, SAMHSA, The Joint Commission, and CARF International. Browse the listings below.
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Drug and Alcohol Rehabs in Augusta, AR
Augusta sits on the White River in the eastern delta, and it was a steamboat landing before the railroads reached this part of Arkansas.
Woodruff County has lost more of its population proportionally than almost any county in the United States, falling from around 22,000 in 1940 to under 6,000 now.
The Cache River and White River national wildlife refuges lie nearby, holding some of the largest remaining bottomland hardwood forest in the Mississippi valley.
Woodruff County reported no drug overdose deaths in the twelve months to December 2021 on provisional CDC counts, with the most recent figure suppressed under small-count disclosure rules.
A reported zero in a county this small reflects a very small population rather than the absence of addiction, and the figure should be read that way.
The treatment picture is thin. Two facilities sit within twelve miles of Augusta, one offering medication-assisted treatment.
Widening to thirty miles reaches eleven facilities including four residential, though no detox appears anywhere in that radius.
Woodruff County sits around an hour and a half northeast of Little Rock.
Which Level of Care Do You Need
The figures below use a twelve-mile catchment with wider numbers where they change the picture, covering Augusta, Bald Knob and Searcy.
Medically Supervised Detox
Where dependence is physical, treatment opens with detox: several days of withdrawal managed under clinical supervision. Nothing within thirty miles of Augusta indicates detox provision. Stopping alcohol or benzodiazepines abruptly can be medically dangerous, so this step needs arranging through a hospital or a licensed provider rather than attempted at home, and it will mean leaving the region.
Inpatient Residential Treatment
A residential stay means relocating into the program for thirty, sixty or ninety days rather than attending it. Nothing within twelve miles indicates residential provision, and around four do within thirty, mostly toward Searcy and Newport. Because detox is absent from the whole catchment and usually has to come first, sequencing those two steps is the central practical task here.
Outpatient, IOP and PHP Treatment
Placement in Arkansas works to American Society of Addiction Medicine criteria, so ask which ASAM level an assessment put you at and check the program actually delivers it. Around two providers within twelve miles offer outpatient services and one offers medication-assisted treatment, with no intensive outpatient locally, rising to eight and five within thirty. Having a medication option locally matters more here than the figure suggests, because in a county this depopulated everything else means a long drive.
Dual Diagnosis and Co-Occurring Disorders Treatment
Dual diagnosis means working on the addiction and the mental health condition in parallel, which the evidence consistently supports. Around one provider within twelve miles of Augusta indicates this work, rising to about six within thirty. If a mental health condition is part of the picture, ask whether a PASSE assessment applies, since it changes who coordinates the care.
Arkansas runs a managed care model found nowhere else. People with complex behavioral health needs are enrolled in a PASSE, a Provider-led Arkansas Shared Savings Entity, which coordinates physical health, behavioral health and home and community-based services together. Four operate: Arkansas Total Care, CareSource, Empower Healthcare Solutions and Summit Community Care. If addiction sits alongside a serious mental health condition, ask whether a PASSE assessment applies, because it changes who coordinates the care and what is covered.
Sober Living Homes and Transitional Living
Sober living homes are shared, substance-free houses people move into after a program finishes, and this directory covers treatment rather than housing. The Arkansas Recovery Housing Association holds the state register on behalf of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. No operator has to certify, which is exactly why the question is worth putting, especially where a house and a program share ownership. Housing costs in Woodruff County are among the lowest in the country, a consequence of extraordinary population loss rather than abundance.
Addiction Treatment Cost and Insurance Coverage in Augusta, AR
The eastern delta has essentially no private treatment market, and the publicly funded route carries everything here.
How Much Does Addiction Rehab Cost?
Standard outpatient care in Augusta costs roughly $1,250 to $5,000 a month and is the level the county carries, alongside medication-assisted treatment. Residential treatment at $5,900 to $24,000 a month, intensive outpatient at $2,600 to $9,000 a month and medical detox at $1,400 to $4,900 a week all mean leaving the region.
Very few people here meet those figures directly. ARHOME covers adults up to around $22,000 a year, which reaches a large share of this county, and it is worth checking eligibility before assuming treatment is unaffordable.
| Level of care | Monthly | Daily |
|---|---|---|
| Medical detox (7–14 days) | $1,400 – $4,900 per week | $200 – $700 |
| Residential inpatient | $5,900 – $24,000 | $195 – $800 |
| PHP | $6,900 – $13,500 | $230 – $450 |
| IOP | $2,600 – $9,000 | $85 – $300 |
| Outpatient | $1,250 – $5,000 | $40 – $165 |
| Level of care | Monthly | Daily |
|---|---|---|
| Residential inpatient | $17,000 – $50,000+ | $565 – $1,660 |
| PHP | $14,000 – $32,000 | $465 – $1,065 |
| IOP | $9,500 – $24,000 | $315 – $800 |
| Outpatient | $5,000 – $15,500 | $165 – $515 |
Does Insurance Cover Rehab?
Yes. Addiction treatment sits among the essential health benefits most plans are required to include. What a plan actually pays varies with the employer, the network and the level of care, so two people with the same insurer can face very different bills. ARHOME and Medicare reach a larger share of this population than employer plans do.
A plan covering treatment is not a plan approving it. Prior authorization is near-universal before detox and residential care, and in-network or out-of-network usually decides the bill. Transport is frequently the practical obstacle here rather than cost, so ask a licensed provider what help exists with getting to appointments before assuming a program is unworkable.
Arkansas expanded Medicaid through ARHOME, which is unusual in how it works: rather than issuing a Medicaid card, it buys private Blue Cross Blue Shield or Ambetter cover on the state exchange for most enrollees. You are covered by Medicaid, but the card in your wallet says something else, so tell a program you are on ARHOME rather than simply saying you have Blue Cross.
A change worth acting on now. ARHOME, the Medicaid expansion program covering around 210,000 Arkansans, introduced a work and community engagement requirement. A soft launch began on 1 July 2026 and full enforcement starts on 1 January 2027, when non-exempt adults aged 19 to 64 must complete 80 hours a month of work, study or volunteering to keep coverage. Exemptions include being medically frail, having a serious medical condition, caring for a dependent, homelessness and recent incarceration. Anyone in treatment for an addiction may well qualify, but the exemption has to be claimed rather than assumed. When Arkansas last tried this in 2018, more than 18,000 people lost coverage, and research afterwards found the overwhelming majority were eligible and had simply not reported. Check your status at access.arkansas.gov and keep your address and phone number current there.
Free and State-Funded Addiction Rehab in Augusta, AR
The Arkansas Department of Human Services regulates the public addiction treatment system through its Office of Substance Abuse and Mental Health, which licenses providers and directs state and federal funding, and it runs the Arkansas State Hospital in Little Rock as the state psychiatric facility.
More Help and Recovery Support
Unity Health Harris Medical Center in Newport and the Searcy hospital are the nearest facilities, each around half an hour away, with the Little Rock hospitals an hour and a half southwest.
Alcoholics Anonymous meets in Augusta and the surrounding towns, and in a county this depopulated those rooms are frequently the only ongoing support within reach. Narcotics Anonymous operates a delta area, and Celebrate Recovery meets in churches locally. Nearby Bald Knob, Searcy and Newport carry further listings, with more across Arkansas.
Free and confidential, available now
Arkansas DHS Substance Abuse Treatment referral — 1-844-763-0198 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline — call or text 988
References and Citations
- CDC National Center for Health Statistics — VSRR provisional county-level drug overdose death counts, Woodruff County, twelve months ending December 2021 and December 2025, data as of 5 July 2026.
- Arkansas Department of Human Services — Office of Substance Abuse and Mental Health, provider licensing and the Arkansas State Hospital.
- Arkansas Department of Human Services — ARHOME Community Engagement and Work Requirement, soft implementation from 1 July 2026 and enforcement from 1 January 2027.
- Arkansas Department of Human Services — Provider-led Arkansas Shared Savings Entity (PASSE) program, established under Act 775.
- Rehab Seekers directory listings, Augusta and Woodruff County, August 2026, and market rate research, Arkansas, 2026. Ranges are indicative and vary by facility, length of stay and coverage.