Sober Nation lists 121 treatment centers across Montana, and they cluster where the population does. Billings has the most at 15 listed centers, followed by Missoula with 11, then Kalispell and Helena with 8 each. Great Falls lists 7, Butte 5, and Havre 4, while smaller communities such as Glendive, Livingston, and Bozeman each list 3. Reading that list from the top down, the takeaway is not only where care is concentrated but how much of the state sits far from any of it.
The available care skews heavily toward the outpatient end. Ninety-four percent of listed centers offer outpatient services and 95% offer aftercare, while only 7% provide medically supervised detox and 11% offer residential treatment. Medication-assisted treatment is available at 29% of centers. On the payment side, 98% of listed centers accept Medicaid and 34% accept Medicare.
Those figures describe the programs in our directory, not the size of the problem itself. For statewide context, federal survey data show that about 20% of Montanans aged 12 and older — roughly 195,000 people — met the criteria for a substance use disorder in the past year, yet nearly three-quarters of those who needed treatment did not receive it (SAMHSA's 2022–2023 National Survey on Drug Use and Health). On overdose, Montana recorded about 170 drug overdose deaths in 2024, an age-adjusted rate of roughly 15 per 100,000 residents, with methamphetamine involved in about 49% of them — more than any other drug (CDC / National Center for Health Statistics).