Drug and Alcohol Rehab Centers in McLean, VA
Drug and alcohol addiction treatment providers serving McLean are listed on this page, including nearby communities such as Pimmit Hills, Falls Church, Idylwood, Tysons, and Seven Corners. Scroll down to browse inpatient rehabs, outpatient programs, virtual treatment providers, counselors, and therapists in the area.
Providers listed for McLean, including services reaching Arlington, Dunn Loring, and Lake Barcroft, are reviewed against the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, SAMHSA, The Joint Commission, and CARF International. Compare levels of care, insurance accepted and location, then get in touch with a program directly.
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Drug and Alcohol Rehabs in McLean, VA
McLean sits in northern Fairfax County between Arlington and the Potomac, and it is an unincorporated community rather than a town.
The Central Intelligence Agency has its headquarters at Langley within McLean, and Hickory Hill was the home of Robert F. Kennedy.
It has among the highest median household incomes in the United States, and much of the working population is in federal service, intelligence, law or contracting.
Provisional CDC counts show Fairfax County falling from 126 deaths to 104 across four years, a decline of around a sixth.
Set against a Commonwealth that halved its figure over the same period, that is the weakest improvement any large Virginia locality recorded.
Around forty facilities sit within twelve miles of McLean, five of which indicate detox and sixteen residential care.
Push the radius out to thirty miles and the count reaches seventy-three, with thirty-two beds and sixteen partial hospitalization programs among them.
Depth is not the constraint in this corridor; fit is, and so is whatever a clearance or an employer requires.
Which Level of Care Do You Need
The figures below use a twelve-mile catchment with wider numbers where they change the picture, covering McLean, Arlington and Vienna.
Medically Supervised Detox
Where dependence is physical, treatment opens with detox: several days of withdrawal managed under clinical supervision. Around five facilities within twelve miles of McLean indicate detox provision, rising to about six within thirty. McLean sits between the river and the Beltway with Arlington immediately south, which puts five detox providers inside a genuinely short drive rather than a nominal twelve-mile radius.
Inpatient Residential Treatment
Residential programs house people for as long as treatment lasts, commonly a month and sometimes considerably longer. Around sixteen facilities within twelve miles of McLean indicate residential provision, rising to about thirty-two within thirty. Sixteen beds inside twelve miles is fewer than Annandale or Falls Church record further into the county, because McLean loses a substantial part of its catchment circle to the Potomac and the District beyond it.
Outpatient, IOP and PHP Treatment
A licensed assessment in Virginia should map you to a specific ASAM level, and because ARTS funds each of them, coverage is rarely the reason a level is unavailable. Around twenty-five providers within twelve miles offer outpatient services, eight indicate intensive outpatient, six partial hospitalization and seventeen medication-assisted treatment. Langley sits inside this community, and for anyone working there or in the contracting world around it, an evening schedule and a program outside the immediate area are usually what make treatment practical at all.
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 twenty-four providers within twelve miles of McLean indicate this work, rising to about forty-seven within thirty. Clearance holders are more concentrated in McLean than almost anywhere in the country, and the relevant point is that voluntary disclosure is treated differently from a problem discovered another way. Ask how a program documents treatment before admission rather than after.
Sober Living Homes and Transitional Living
Recovery housing after a treatment episode is not listed here as a separate category. The Virginia Association of Recovery Residences holds the state register on behalf of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. Since certification is optional, ask a residence directly whether it holds it and who inspects it. There is effectively no shared rental stock in McLean of the kind recovery residences occupy, so anywhere to live after a stay means Fairfax, Annandale or further out.
Addiction Treatment Cost and Insurance Coverage in McLean, VA
Nowhere else in Virginia carries this much private-pay capacity, and nowhere else prices like it either.
How Much Does Addiction Rehab Cost?
Residential treatment near McLean costs roughly $6,800 to $28,000 a month, medical detox $1,700 to $5,400 a week, partial hospitalization $7,800 to $15,000 a month, intensive outpatient $2,900 to $9,800 a month and standard outpatient $1,400 to $5,600 a month.
Price tracks clinical contact poorly at this end of the market. Ask how many individual therapy hours a week a program actually delivers and whether a physician is on site overnight, rather than comparing monthly headline figures.
| Level of care | Monthly | Daily |
|---|---|---|
| Medical detox (7–14 days) | $1,700 – $5,400 per week | $240 – $770 |
| Residential inpatient | $6,800 – $28,000 | $225 – $930 |
| PHP | $7,800 – $15,000 | $260 – $500 |
| IOP | $2,900 – $9,800 | $95 – $325 |
| Outpatient | $1,400 – $5,600 | $45 – $185 |
| Level of care | Monthly | Daily |
|---|---|---|
| Residential inpatient | $19,000 – $55,000+ | $630 – $1,830 |
| PHP | $15,000 – $34,000 | $500 – $1,130 |
| IOP | $10,500 – $26,000 | $350 – $865 |
| Outpatient | $5,400 – $17,000 | $180 – $565 |
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. Employer plans dominate here, alongside federal employee health benefits and Medicare.
Having cover and having approval are two separate hurdles. Detox and residential admissions almost always need authorization in advance, and network status usually decides the bill. Federal employee health benefits cover this population heavily, and what they will and will not pay toward an out-of-network residential stay is worth establishing in writing before admission.
Virginia Medicaid runs as Cardinal Care, delivered through managed care plans including Aetna Better Health, Anthem HealthKeepers Plus, Molina, Sentara Community Plan and UnitedHealthcare Community Plan. Which plan you hold decides which programs are in network, so give the plan name rather than simply saying you have Medicaid.
Free and State-Funded Addiction Rehab in McLean, VA
Virginia covers addiction treatment through Medicaid more fully than most states. The Addiction and Recovery Treatment Services benefit, introduced in 2017, pays for the whole ASAM continuum including inpatient detox and residential care, which many state Medicaid programs still will not fund. Virginia also expanded Medicaid in 2019, so a single adult earning up to roughly $21,600 a year generally qualifies regardless of whether they have children or a disability. If cost is the reason you have not called anyone, that is the first thing worth checking.
Fairfax-Falls Church CSB is the community services board for Fairfax County, and community services boards are the front door to Virginia’s public behavioral health system. They assess, treat and refer regardless of ability to pay, and under STEP-VA every board in the Commonwealth is required to deliver a defined set of services including same-day access to an initial assessment. That means you can generally be seen quickly without a referral, which is worth knowing before ringing round private programs.
More Help and Recovery Support
Inova Fairfax Hospital is the region’s Level I trauma center and the largest hospital in Virginia, a short drive southwest.
AA runs at almost any hour across this corridor, the fullest schedule in Virginia, with meetings in McLean itself and many more within a short drive. NA covers a northern Virginia area, and SMART Recovery meets at several points nearby. Nearby Arlington, Falls Church and Vienna carry further listings, with more across Virginia.
Free and confidential, available now
Fairfax-Falls Church CSB — same-day access assessment 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, Fairfax County, twelve months ending December 2021 and December 2025, data as of 5 July 2026.
- Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services — Addiction and Recovery Treatment Services (ARTS) benefit and ASAM levels of care.
- Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services — community services board network, provider licensing and STEP-VA same-day access.
- Fairfax-Falls Church CSB — service area and access arrangements.
- Rehab Seekers directory listings, McLean and Fairfax County, August 2026, and market rate research, Virginia, 2026. Ranges are indicative and vary by facility, length of stay and coverage.