Is www.addictiongroup.org safe?

https://www.addictiongroup.org/resources/treatment-statistics/

SafeStatus

Coveragecomplete4 of 4 applicable core capabilities

Verdict

Established addiction-information site with a disclosed provider-operated helpline

This is an informational page about addiction-treatment efficacy, with references to support organizations and health sources. Security checks found no warning or malicious detection. The main consideration is commercial neutrality: calls to its general helpline are answered by American Addiction Centers, so callers should understand that they are speaking with a particular treatment provider rather than an independent referral service.

The page appears safe to read. If you call its general helpline, verify the provider relationship, costs, insurance coverage, licensing, and alternative treatment options independently before making a care decision.
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Calibrated safety spectrum

Where this site sits

  1. Dangerous1–20
  2. High Risk21–44
  3. Moderate Risk45–69
  4. Low Risk70–84
  5. Safe85–100

The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.

01 · Investigation Brief

Investigation Brief

This is an informational page about addiction-treatment efficacy, with references to support organizations and health sources. Security checks found no warning or malicious detection. The main consideration is commercial neutrality: calls to its general helpline are answered by American Addiction Centers, so callers should understand that they are speaking with a particular treatment provider rather than an independent referral service.

No technical threat was detected

The saved checks found a valid encrypted connection, no browsing-safety warning, and zero malicious or suspicious detections across 92 security engines.

The domain has also existed for 3,608 days, providing additional context that it is not newly registered, although age alone does not establish trustworthiness.

The helpline routes callers to a specific treatment provider

The available disclosure says calls to general, non-facility-specific helpline numbers are answered by American Addiction Centers. Visitors seeking treatment should therefore treat the call as contact with that provider, not as evidence of an independent comparison of all facilities.

The site is owned and funded by Treatment Pathways LLC, which operates Addiction Group and another addiction-focused site.

The page also links to outside support and health resources, including Al-Anon and material from government and medical sources.

Why the score is 89

The score combines saved deterministic evidence with the grounded analysis available for this report. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.

02 · Security Evidence

Security evidence

Collected signals and independent provider data for this URL.

Antivirus Engines

0/ 92

No detections

Fresh result

No detections across 92 engines

No antivirus engine in this saved scan raised an adverse result. This is one signal, not a guarantee.

Malicious
0
Suspicious
0
Total
92
All 92 engine results
  • 0xSI_f33d - unrated - Clean
  • Abusix - clean - Clean
  • Acronis - clean - Clean
  • ADMINUSLabs - clean - Clean
  • AILabs (MONITORAPP) - clean - Clean
  • AlienVault - clean - Clean
  • alphaMountain.ai - unrated - Clean
  • AlphaSOC - unrated - Clean
  • Antiy-AVL - clean - Clean
  • ArcSight Threat Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • AutoShun - unrated - Clean
  • Bfore.Ai PreCrime - unrated - Clean
  • BitDefender - clean - Clean
  • Bkav - unrated - Clean
  • BlockList - clean - Clean
  • Blueliv - clean - Clean
  • Certego - clean - Clean
  • ChainPatrol - unrated - Clean
  • Chong Lua Dao - clean - Clean
  • CINS Army - clean - Clean
  • CRDF - clean - Clean
  • Criminal IP - unrated - Clean
  • CSIS Security Group - unrated - Clean
  • CTX AI - clean - Clean
  • Cyan - unrated - Clean
  • Cyble - clean - Clean
  • CyRadar - clean - Clean
  • desenmascara.me - clean - Clean
  • DNS8 - unrated - Clean
  • Dr.Web - clean - Clean
  • EmergingThreats - clean - Clean
  • Emsisoft - clean - Clean
  • Ermes - unrated - Clean
  • ESET - clean - Clean
  • ESTsecurity - clean - Clean
  • Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - clean - Clean
  • Fortinet - clean - Clean
  • Fortra - unrated - Clean
  • G-Data - clean - Clean
  • GCP Abuse Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • Google Safe Browsing - clean - Clean
  • GreenSnow - clean - Clean
  • GreyNoise - unrated - Clean
  • Gridinsoft - unrated - Clean
  • Guardpot - unrated - Clean
  • Heimdal Security - clean - Clean
  • Hunt.io Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • IPsum - clean - Clean
  • Juniper Networks - clean - Clean
  • K7AntiVirus - unrated - Clean
  • Kaspersky - clean - Clean
  • LevelBlue - clean - Clean
  • Lionic - clean - Clean
  • Lumu - unrated - Clean
  • Malwared - clean - Clean
  • MalwarePatrol - clean - Clean
  • MalwareURL - unrated - Clean
  • Mimecast - unrated - Clean
  • Netcraft - unrated - Clean
  • OpenPhish - clean - Clean
  • PhishFort - unrated - Clean
  • Phishing Database - clean - Clean
  • Phishtank - clean - Clean
  • PREBYTES - clean - Clean
  • PrecisionSec - unrated - Clean
  • Quick Heal - clean - Clean
  • Quttera - clean - Clean
  • Rising - clean - Clean
  • SafeToOpen - unrated - Clean
  • Sangfor - clean - Clean
  • Sansec eComscan - unrated - Clean
  • Scantitan - clean - Clean
  • SCUMWARE.org - clean - Clean
  • Seclookup - clean - Clean
  • Snort IP sample list - unrated - Clean
  • SOCRadar - unrated - Clean
  • Sophos - clean - Clean
  • StopForumSpam - clean - Clean
  • Sucuri SiteCheck - clean - Clean
  • Synthient - unrated - Clean
  • ThreatHive - clean - Clean
  • URLhaus - clean - Clean
  • URLQuery - unrated - Clean
  • Viettel Threat Intelligence - clean - Clean
  • VIPRE - unrated - Clean
  • ViriBack - clean - Clean
  • VX Vault - clean - Clean
  • Webroot - clean - Clean
  • Xcitium Verdict Cloud - clean - Clean
  • Yandex Safebrowsing - clean - Clean
  • ZeroCERT - clean - Clean
  • ZeroFox - unrated - Clean

Security Scans

Browser Threat Feed
Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.

What we observed

CAPTURED PAGE
www.addictiongroup.org
Visual analysis

Visual context from the captured page

Addiction Treatment: Statistics on Efficacy

Context only

What the captured page showed

1 observation
  1. 01

    Addiction Treatment: Statistics on Efficacy

03 · Investigation Story

Investigation story

The behavior, reputation, and operator evidence that explains how this site may affect a visitor.
  1. What the site claims

    Addiction Treatment: Statistics on Efficacy - Addiction Group

  2. What we observed

    The page content was captured and checked alongside 92 antivirus results.

  3. What independent research found

    2 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.

  4. What remains unverified

    The checks completed, but ownership, business claims, and future site behavior can still change after this snapshot.

What kind of site and risk is this?

Threat category

No threat category confirmed

Service and business model

Content

Advertising

Observed behavior

No disruptive browser behavior saved

Evidence behind this classification

  1. 01text Addiction Treatment: Statistics on Efficacy Addiction Group www.addictiongroup.org
  2. 02Treatment Pathways LLC owns and funds two addiction sites: Addiction Group and Alcohol Rehab Help. LinkedIn https://linkedin.com/company/treatment-pathways-llc
  3. 03General helpline calls are answered by American Addiction Centers, creating a provider-specific referral context.

Web research findings

Independent findings for www.addictiongroup.org, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.

Business registration
No public record found
Could not match the site to a registered company — common for small sites.
Clone check
No clone detected
The completed research found no supported clone indicator.
Typosquat check
No look-alike match
The completed research found no supported look-alike match.
Web mentions
No scam reports found
The completed search returned no sourced scam reports or complaints.

No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for www.addictiongroup.org. That is common for new or low-traffic sites and does not clear the site.

Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
Not listedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
Not listedCheck ↗

04 · Domain & Infrastructure

Domain & infrastructure

Timeline · identity · encryption · redirects · hosting

The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.

Infrastructure map

How the saved page connected to the wider web.

  1. Domainwww.addictiongroup.org
  2. Redirects towww.addictiongroup.org
  3. Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
  4. Referencesgoogletagmanager.com · addictionhelp.com

Domain Timeline

  1. Nov 10, 2016
    Domain registered

    First appeared in WHOIS records — 9.9 years old when this review was saved.

  2. Sep 28, 2026
    Saved security review — Reviewed as safe

    This saved scan found no active threat signals in the checks it completed.

www.addictiongroup.org has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.

Contact Verification

Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.

What We Found
No clear contact details on the page
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbers2888149
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles0
Signal Summary
Several contact red flags
  • No direct contact email found on the captured page.
  • No operator postal address visible on the captured page.
  • Phone number listed (2888149).

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age10 years old
RegistrarCloudflare, Inc.
RegisteredNov 10, 2016
ExpiresNov 10, 2026
Owner privacyUnknown
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerGoogle Trust Services · WE1
ExpiresDec 17, 2026 (79d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingCloudflare, Inc.
Server locationUS
Web servercloudflare
Platform / CMSWordPress

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPCloudflare, Inc.
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

Referenced Domains

Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.

05 · Evidence Ledger

Evidence ledger

Coverage, provenance, and source freshness remain separate so a missing check is never mistaken for a clean result.
  1. Antiviruscomplete
  2. Browser threat feedcomplete
  3. Page contentcomplete
  4. Analysiscomplete
  5. Visual evidencecomplete
Completed analysis

The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.

Technical threat

unknown

Malware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.

No confirmed evidence in this dimension.

Operator / customer risk

unknown

Complaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.

No confirmed evidence in this dimension.

Source coverage and freshness

Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.

Antivirus
Result0 of 92 engines flagged
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessfresh · Sep 28, 2026
Browser protection
ResultNo browser threat-list match
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
FreshnessNot available
Page content
ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
FreshnessNot available
Visual evidence
Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
FreshnessNot available
Independent research
Result2 independent findings were saved
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
FreshnessNot available

06 · Your Next Move

Your next move

Still, stay alert

No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.

  1. Double-check the exact URL in your address bar

    Confirm you are actually on www.addictiongroup.org and not a lookalike like w-ww.addictiongroup.org or an IDN homoglyph.

  2. Use a password manager

    Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.

  3. Discuss this site on the forum

    If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.

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07 · Safety FAQ

Safety FAQ

Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.

Is www.addictiongroup.org legit and safe?
Our automated security review found no threat indicators on www.addictiongroup.org, so it appears legitimate. All 92 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, and the domain is 9.9 years old, registered on November 10, 2016 — established domains are far less likely to be scams. Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
Is www.addictiongroup.org safe to use?
www.addictiongroup.org has a Safety Score of 89/100 (Safe). Core checks and semantic analysis found no material threat at scan time. Treat unexpected login or payment requests with normal caution.
Could a legitimate site like www.addictiongroup.org still be used in a scam?
Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from www.addictiongroup.org), and legitimate sites are occasionally compromised on specific pages. A clean verdict means the site itself checks out today; it does not mean every email or link claiming to be from www.addictiongroup.org is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
Has www.addictiongroup.org been flagged by antivirus engines?
No — all 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network currently report www.addictiongroup.org as clean. That's a good sign, though antivirus coverage is only one of the many signals we weigh, and brand-new scam sites can appear clean before vendors catch up.
Is www.addictiongroup.org on any phishing or malware blacklists?
No — www.addictiongroup.org is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
How old is the www.addictiongroup.org domain?
www.addictiongroup.org is 9.9 years old, registered on November 10, 2016 through Cloudflare, Inc.. A multi-year registration history is one of the stronger signals against a scam, though it's never a guarantee on its own — established domains can still be misused.
Does www.addictiongroup.org have a valid SSL certificate?
Yes — www.addictiongroup.org presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, valid for another 79 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
Where is www.addictiongroup.org hosted?
www.addictiongroup.org resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
How often is the www.addictiongroup.org report updated?
This report is a record of the scan run on September 28, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about www.addictiongroup.org has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.

08 · Final Verdict

Final verdict

The saved conclusion, decisive evidence, and practical action in one final view.
Verdict score
89/100
Safe

Established addiction-information site with a disclosed provider-operated helpline

Saved capturewww.addictiongroup.orgCapture-safe
Captured during this scan. Opening this report does not revisit the site.
Conclusion

This is an informational page about addiction-treatment efficacy, with references to support organizations and health sources. Security checks found no warning or malicious detection. The main consideration is commercial neutrality: calls to its general helpline are answered by American Addiction Centers, so callers should understand that they are speaking with a particular treatment provider rather than an independent referral service.

Recommended actionThe page appears safe to read. If you call its general helpline, verify the provider relationship, costs, insurance coverage, licensing, and alternative treatment options independently before making a care decision.
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