About

Who publishes this site, and why.

Paul's Corner is a free education site about addiction, alcoholism, 7-OH, and recovery. It exists because most families never get a plain explanation of what they are actually dealing with until they are already deep in it.

There is no paywall and nothing here is for sale. If you use our contact form, your name, email, optional phone number, and message are sent to the site's owner and to the Paul's Corner help center, which is part of this site and will reach out to you. The owner also holds an ownership stake in Palm Beach Recovery Centers, South Jersey Recovery Program, and Palm Beach Healing Centers.

Who publishes it

Paul's Corner has a business relationship with Palm Beach Recovery Centers, South Jersey Recovery Program, and Palm Beach Healing Centers: the owner of Paul's Corner also holds an ownership stake in all three programs. None of these programs owns Paul's Corner, and Paul's Corner receives no referral payments. We think you should know that up front rather than find it out later.

What that connection does not mean:

We do not take referral payments for anything listed here.
We do not sell or rent your information. Messages sent through our contact form go to the Paul's Corner help center, which is part of this site and may contact you about treatment options, including programs the owner of Paul's Corner holds an ownership stake in.
Two of the programs the owner of Paul's Corner holds an ownership stake in appear in our resource listings: Palm Beach Recovery Centers and South Jersey Recovery Program. Each is labeled as affiliated wherever it appears. Every article on our blog is published by one of the three programs named above, and each one is labeled as affiliated. The other resources we list are government agencies and nonprofit or peer-support organizations, such as SAMHSA, findtreatment.gov, 988, Al-Anon, NA, AA, and SMART Recovery.
Paul's Corner is not a treatment provider and does not admit or treat anyone. The Paul's Corner help center may ask questions to understand your needs; any assessment or admission is done by a licensed program.

Where we link to an article published by a program affiliated with us, that link is labeled as affiliated on the page it appears.

How we decide what goes on the site

Sources first. We check clinical and legal claims against federal agencies (FDA, DEA, NIDA, NIAAA, SAMHSA, CDC), peer-reviewed literature, or named local reporting. Where a source is contested or a rule is still moving, we say so instead of picking a side.
Dated, not evergreen-by-pretense. Every page carries a last-updated date. Drug law in this area changes fast — 7-OH scheduling has moved several times in the past year alone — and an undated page is a page you cannot trust.
Plain language. If a sentence needs a clinical degree to parse, it gets rewritten.
No scare copy, no miracle copy. Addiction is serious and treatable. Both halves of that belong on the page.

What this site is not

This is education, not medical advice, and not a substitute for evaluation by a clinician. Withdrawal from alcohol, benzodiazepines, and opioids can be medically dangerous. Do not make decisions about stopping a substance based on a web page — including this one.

If you are in immediate danger, call 911. If you are in crisis, call or text 988. For treatment referrals any time, day or night, SAMHSA's free helpline is 1-800-662-4357.

If we got something wrong

Tell us. Errors on a site like this cost people real time and occasionally real harm, and we would rather fix one than defend it. Corrections to substantive claims are made on the page and noted in the last-updated date.

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