We're LegitScript-Certified. Here Is What That Means If You Are Looking for Suboxone Treatment in Northwest Arkansas

We're LegitScript-certified.

LegitScript certification demonstrates that Suboxone Recovery Center of Arkansas complies with LegitScript's certification standards, which help ensure transparency and compliance with applicable laws and regulations. You can confirm it yourself in about ten seconds on LegitScript's public status page for suboxrecovery.com.

Most people have never heard of LegitScript, and that is fine. But if you or someone you love is searching online for help with opioids right now, it is worth knowing what this is and why it exists.

What LegitScript is

LegitScript is the industry leader in merchant and advertiser certification and monitoring in the e-commerce and payment sectors. Its addiction treatment program is the one Google, Meta (Facebook and Instagram), Microsoft and Nextdoor use to vet addiction treatment advertisers.

Google's own policy is direct about it: in the United States, an advertiser must be certified as an addiction services provider by the LegitScript Certification program to advertise recovery-oriented drug and alcohol addiction services. Providers who are not eligible for certification are not allowed to run those ads on Google.

What the review looked at

LegitScript publishes its standards. For addiction treatment providers they cover 16 areas. In plain language, they include:

• Licensing and registration. The business and its clinicians must be properly licensed, and prescribers of controlled medicines such as buprenorphine must hold a current DEA registration.
• Every location and every service, disclosed. The website must clearly show the real street address where care happens and the services actually offered, and photos must truthfully show the facility.
• Staff qualifications and history. Clinical training must be documented, and prior criminal, regulatory or civil violations and recent litigation must be disclosed.
• Approved medications only. A medication-assisted treatment program may use only drugs permitted by regulators.
• No lead generators. A certified provider may not own, partner with, or answer the hotline of a lead-generation business.
• Incentives disclosed. Anything offered to patients must be disclosed; paying for travel generally makes a provider ineligible.
• Privacy and honest advertising. Patient health information must be protected, and ads must be accurate, name the provider, and not claim locations or services that do not exist.

Certification is not a one-time stamp. LegitScript monitors certified providers during the year and renews certification annually.

What certification does not mean

I want to be straight with you about this. LegitScript certification does not imply endorsement or sponsorship of products or services. It measures objective standards and is not a reflection of the quality of care. Plenty of good clinicians have never applied, for all kinds of reasons, and nothing here suggests otherwise.

What it does tell you is that our licensing, location, services, and the way we present ourselves online were checked by an outside reviewer against published rules.

Questions worth asking any treatment provider

Whether you call us or anyone else, these questions protect you:

1. What is your street address, and is that where I will be seen?
2. Who will I actually see, and are they a licensed prescriber?
3. When I called, did I reach the clinic itself, or a call center? A treatment provider should name itself on the phone.
4. What does a visit cost, and what is not included? You should hear the price before you go.
5. What services do you not offer? A straight answer here is a good sign.

Our answers

You will be seen at 102 E Sunbridge Dr, Suite 3, in Fayetteville. You see me, Dr. Robert Tomlinson, at every visit. When you call 479-856-1505, I am the one who answers, day or night. Scheduled visits are $200 and unscheduled after-hours visits are $300; I do not bill insurance. Your first Suboxone dose is taken in my office so I can get the timing right, and your records are private under HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2.

I do not offer inpatient detox or methadone dispensing. If you need either, I will help you find it. You can read more about what the first visit looks like, what treatment costs, and why the clinic is built around in-person care.

Make the call

If opioids, fentanyl, pain pills or 7-OH have taken more of your life than you want them to, call me at 479-856-1505 to make an appointment. You can ask questions for yourself or for someone you love, and you do not have to decide anything on that call.