Drug and Alcohol Rehab Centers in Newport News, VA
Addiction treatment providers across Newport News are gathered on this page, covering places such as Denbigh, Fort Eustis, Hilton Village, Oyster Point, and Bethel Manor. Scroll down to browse inpatient rehabs, outpatient programs, virtual treatment providers, counselors, and therapists in the area.
Treatment centers in Newport News shown here, including those covering Yorktown, Rushmere, and Poquoson, are checked against records held by the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, SAMHSA, The Joint Commission, and CARF International. Compare what each program offers and reach out to any provider directly.
15 Drug and Alcohol Rehab Treatment Centers in Newport News, VA
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Drug and Alcohol Rehabs in Newport News, VA
Newport News stretches for twenty-three miles along the James River, and Newport News Shipbuilding is the largest industrial employer in Virginia and the only yard in the country building nuclear aircraft carriers.
Around 25,000 people work at the yard, and Fort Eustis to the north is the Army’s transportation and logistics center.
The city was the terminus of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, built to carry West Virginia coal to tidewater, and coal still moves through the piers.
Newport News has recorded a substantial decline in overdose deaths, from 69 in the twelve months to December 2021 to 33 in the twelve months to December 2025 on provisional CDC counts, a fall of 52 percent.
The treatment picture needs stating plainly. Around twelve facilities sit within twelve miles, two of which indicate residential care.
None indicates detox within twelve miles, though the thirty-mile ring reaches six as it crosses the water toward Norfolk.
That wider ring reaches fifty-two facilities, so what is thin on the peninsula is abundant on the southside.
Newport News is an independent city belonging to no county, which is a Virginia arrangement found almost nowhere else in the United States.
Which Level of Care Do You Need
The figures below use a twelve-mile catchment with wider numbers where they change the picture, covering Downtown Newport News, Denbigh and Hampton.
Medically Supervised Detox
Detox is the supervised management of withdrawal, running roughly three to ten days depending on the substance, and it precedes everything else where the body has become dependent. Around one facility within twelve miles of Newport News indicates detox provision, rising to about eight within thirty. A single option makes waiting times the first question rather than the last. Alcohol withdrawal carries its highest risk in the first seventy-two hours, so overnight medical cover is a fair question to put before admission.
Inpatient Residential Treatment
Residential care puts someone in a live-in setting for weeks at a time, with therapy and daily routine running together. Around two facilities within twelve miles of Newport News indicate residential provision, rising to about eight within thirty. Two beds for a city of 185,000 is the clearest constraint here, and most placements will mean crossing to the southside.
Outpatient, IOP and PHP Treatment
Because Virginia assesses against ASAM criteria and pays for every tier through ARTS, the level you are placed at is a clinical finding rather than a sales category, and it is worth asking to see it. Around eleven providers within twelve miles offer outpatient services, one indicates intensive outpatient and five medication-assisted treatment, rising to forty-nine and eleven within thirty. Yard work runs on shifts around the clock, so ask whether a program can schedule around them rather than assuming daytime attendance is possible.
Dual Diagnosis and Co-Occurring Disorders Treatment
Around half of people with a substance use disorder also have a diagnosable mental health condition, and treating one while leaving the other alone rarely holds. Around six providers within twelve miles of Newport News indicate this work, rising to about thirty within thirty. Shipyard work is physically demanding and injury is common, so anyone who came to opioids through a prescription should say so at assessment.
Sober Living Homes and Transitional Living
After treatment ends, recovery housing is what many people step into next, and it is not listed here as a separate category. Certification in Virginia runs through the Virginia Association of Recovery Residences, the state NARR affiliate. Certification is a choice rather than a requirement, so treat it as something to check rather than assume. Housing costs on the peninsula sit below Virginia Beach, which makes recovery housing more achievable here than across the water.
Addiction Treatment Cost and Insurance Coverage in Newport News, VA
Hampton Roads prices near the Virginia average, and between employer cover at the yard, TRICARE and ARTS most households here have a funded route into treatment.
How Much Does Addiction Rehab Cost?
Standard outpatient care in Newport News costs roughly $1,400 to $5,600 a month and is well supplied locally, alongside medication-assisted treatment. Residential treatment at $6,800 to $28,000 a month, intensive outpatient at $2,900 to $9,800 a month and medical detox at $1,700 to $5,400 a week all mean crossing the water or traveling up the peninsula.
A safety-sensitive role at the shipyard carries its own reporting requirements, so ask a program how it handles return-to-work documentation before admission rather than afterwards.
| 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 through the shipyard, TRICARE, VA Community Care, Medicare and Cardinal Care are all common here.
Approval is a separate hurdle from coverage. Detox and residential admissions almost always need prior authorization, and your share normally turns on network status. VA Community Care can authorize treatment at a civilian program where the VA cannot provide it in time or within reach, which given the absence of local detox is worth raising early.
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 Newport News, 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.
Hampton-Newport News CSB is the community services board for Newport News, 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
Riverside Regional Medical Center serves Newport News, with Sentara Norfolk General acting as the region’s Level I trauma center across the water and the Hampton VA Medical Center adjacent.
Alcoholics Anonymous meets at most hours across the peninsula, with several groups carrying a strong shipyard and military presence. Narcotics Anonymous operates a tidewater area, and Celebrate Recovery meets widely. Nearby Hampton, Yorktown and Williamsburg carry further listings, with more across Virginia.
Free and confidential, available now
Hampton-Newport News 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, Newport News, 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.
- Hampton-Newport News CSB — service area and access arrangements.
- Rehab Seekers directory listings, Newport News and Newport News, August 2026, and market rate research, Virginia, 2026. Ranges are indicative and vary by facility, length of stay and coverage.