Editorial Medical Review Guidelines

How We Research, Write, and Review This Content

Hope Harbor Wellness publishes information about addiction and mental health treatment. People make decisions about their own care, or a family member’s, partly on the basis of what they read here. This page sets out who checks that content, what we check it against, and how to tell us when we get something wrong.

Who reviews clinical content

Clinical content is medically reviewed by Dr. Bryon McQuirt, MD, a board-certified psychiatrist with dual specialization in adult and forensic psychiatry and more than fifteen years in practice.

Dr. McQuirt completed his medical education at the Medical University of the Americas, and his internship and residency at Louisiana State University in New Orleans, where he received the Outstanding Resident in Addiction Psychiatry award. He has completed advanced training in trauma assessment.

He is the sole medical reviewer for this site. Where a page carries his name, he has read it.

What gets reviewed

Medical review applies to anything making a clinical claim:

• Withdrawal symptoms, timelines, and medical risk
• Medication information, including medication-assisted treatment
• What each level of care involves and who it suits
• Any statement about outcomes or prognosis
• Descriptions of how a condition develops or is treated

Pages that carry no clinical claim — directions, insurance logistics, facility information — are edited but not medically reviewed. We do not put a medical reviewer’s name on a page he had no reason to read.

What we write to

Clinical statements are drawn from primary sources and cited on the page so you can check them yourself:

• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
• Georgia Department of Public Health
• FDA prescribing information for any medication we name
• Peer-reviewed clinical literature

Where the evidence is genuinely mixed, we say so rather than choosing the more convenient finding. Where something reflects our own clinical judgment rather than settled consensus, we say that too.

How often we re-check

Clinical pages are reviewed again at least once a year. Each one carries a visible review date. If that date is more than a year old, treat the page as due for a check and tell us.

What this content is not

Nothing here is medical advice, a diagnosis, or a substitute for assessment by a clinician who knows your history. Withdrawal from alcohol and from benzodiazepines can be medically dangerous and should not be attempted based on anything you read online.

If you are in crisis, call or text 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. In a medical emergency, call 911.

Telling us we got it wrong

If something on this site is inaccurate, out of date, or misleading, write to marketing@hopeharborwellness.com. We correct errors of fact promptly and note the correction on the page.