Alcohol Rehab Centers: AI Market Discovery Index

Benchmark Summary

August 2026 was a quiet month for the Alcohol Rehab Centers benchmark. No tracked brand moved beyond normal month-to-month variation, and the category leader held steady.

Hazelden Betty Ford leads the index with valid recommendation coverage of 7.1% in August 2026, down from 7.6% in July 2026. The next closest brand, Caron Treatment Centers, reached 3.6% in August 2026, up from 1.5% in July 2026, a gap of 3.5 points.

Caron Treatment Centers posted the largest coverage increase, rising to 3.6% in August 2026 from 1.5% in July 2026. Recovery Centers of America posted the largest coverage decline, falling to 0.0% in August 2026 from 3.0% in July 2026.

The benchmark began with 800 prompt-surface observations in each month and produced 84 qualified observations in August 2026 and 66 in July 2026 after qualification.

Current Benchmark at a Glance

Qualified surface breadth counts the canonical AI surface families with at least one qualified observation. The six families tested are ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Overviews, and AI Mode. In August 2026, the benchmark captured qualified observations across five of these six families, adding Copilot to the four families observed in July 2026.

For the strategic interpretation of this benchmark, read CiteWorks Studio's analysis of How AI Search Is Recommending Alcohol Rehab Centers

Research Scope and Qualification

The public benchmark is narrower than the raw collection universe by design. The funnel below shows how observations were qualified.

Brand-level percentages use the qualified observations as the public denominator, not the raw collection. See the AI Market Discovery Methodology for full details.

Current Brand Standings

The table below shows the current-month benchmark view for all tracked brands, sorted by valid recommendation coverage.

How to Read the Standings

• Presence rate: Share of qualified observations where the brand is mentioned at all, in any context.
• Valid recommendation coverage: Share of qualified observations where the brand appears in a genuine recommendation shortlist.
• Top-three rate: Share of qualified observations where the brand appears among the top three recommended options.
• Rank-one rate: Share of qualified observations where the brand is the single top recommendation.
• Net sentiment: Average sentiment score across mentions, ranging from negative to positive, with neutral at zero.

For formulas and denominator rules, see AI Market Discovery Metric Definitions.

Recommendation Coverage Movement

The table below shows baseline-to-current movement for all tracked brands. All movement in August 2026 was within normal month-to-month variation.

Largest Increase: Caron Treatment Centers

Caron Treatment Centers rose to 3.6% valid recommendation coverage in August 2026 from 1.5% in July 2026, an increase of 2.1 points. The brand moved from one valid recommendation to three, all within the top three, though none at rank one. This is the largest single-month increase in the series, but it does not yet constitute a trend.

Largest Decline: Recovery Centers of America

Recovery Centers of America fell to 0.0% valid recommendation coverage in August 2026 from 3.0% in July 2026, a decline of 3.0 points. The brand went from two valid recommendations to zero. Presence also declined, from 36.4% to 28.6%.

Category Leader: Hazelden Betty Ford

Hazelden Betty Ford remains the category leader with 7.1% valid recommendation coverage in August 2026, down slightly from 7.6% in July 2026. The brand's top-three rate actually increased to 7.1% from 6.1%, while its rank-one rate dipped to 5.9% from 6.1%. Net sentiment improved from 0.1 to 0.2.

Recommendation Placement Snapshot

Coverage alone does not show how prominently a brand is recommended. The placement rates below show where leading brands appear within recommendation lists.

Hazelden Betty Ford leads both coverage and placement, with 5 of its 6 top-three appearances also at rank one. Similar coverage rates can still hide different first-position rates, as seen with American Addiction Centers, which reached 1.2% coverage in August 2026 but never appeared in the top three.

Buyer-Intent Distribution

All qualified observations in both July and August 2026 fell into the brand recommendation class of buyer-intent discovery.

The current public series measures brand-recommendation discovery and does not yet contain qualified observations in the pricing or comparison classes.

Historical Measurement Record

This is an evergreen benchmark URL. New measurements are added to the same report.

Evidence and Source Layer

The benchmark is built from prompt-level observations that retain the query, AI/search surface, answer, brand outcome, recommendation placement, sentiment, and where exposed, citations or attributable evidence sources. Source presence is evidence about the information environment. It is not automatically proof that the source caused the recommendation.

Scope Boundaries

This public benchmark does not measure market share, attributable sales, every possible AI response, organic-search ranking, social mention volume, private or sponsored channels, or causality from a metric movement alone.

About This Benchmark

The LLM Authority Index AI Market Discovery Index tracks how brands appear across major AI and search surfaces in response to real consumer prompts. It measures presence, recommendation coverage, placement, and sentiment as distinct signals.

• AI Market Discovery Methodology
• AI Market Discovery Metric Definitions
• AI Market Discovery Research Standards
• Modeled AI Authority Value

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