Affect: Addiction Recovery

Affect Therapeutics

About this app

Affect is more than a sobriety app or sober tracker. It is the first integrated addiction recovery app to provide a full outpatient treatment program with rewards as you make progress. You don't have to go to rehab to stop drinking and using drugs. Affect puts a recovery program right in your pocket.

Affect’s revolutionary program ranks in the top 1% of all addiction treatment providers with better results than rehab clinics. Through our scientifically-proven approach, you can learn to manage, reduce, and quit alcohol, cannabis, stimulants like meth and cocaine, opioids like heroin, or pain killers and other prescription medications. Affect gives you the support you need to get sober, improve your mental health, and build healthy habits.

The program is private, confidential, convenient, highly effective, delivered entirely through your smartphone, and covered by insurance. The addiction recovery app is free to use without enrolling in the treatment program.

Many people enroll in Affect's program to get professional support while attending 12-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) or Narcotics Anonymous (NA) or SMART Recovery.

Sobriety is not a requirement. Affect helps people who struggle with relapses. Counselors work with people on their deeper issues where recovery coaches and peer communities fall short. Affect's program is also used by people who leave detox or inpatient residential rehab clinics to continue their recovery journeys.

There are sober apps where you go it alone. There are rehab clinics where you go away. There is nothing else like Affect.

► Rewards for successful participation in treatment, including for staying sober.

► Group and individual telehealth counseling with licensed counselors who are specialists in addiction and mental health.

► Medications to help you manage cravings, depression, and anxiety. Help with detox and withdrawal management.

► Support and resources to improve your life, including help finding healthcare, employment, and housing.

► Gamification tracks sobriety, helps manage your schedule, and speeds progress with tools like a sober counter and tasks that build healthy habits.

► Caring and private community offers support and understanding at all times.

Affect works better. Our rewards system is based on decades of research on successful behavior change and technology. People decrease use by 50% in the first month. Affect's program results in outcomes that are twice as effective as traditional clinical models. Recovery isn’t painful.

We accept many insurance plans including Medicare and Medicaid, which fully covers treatment for qualified members. Please see our website for the full list of plans we accept. There are no subscription fees or ads. Your private information is kept secure and is not shared with any third parties or online trackers.

Affect is a licensed treatment provider, accredited by CARF International. Our research was supported by grants from The National Institute on Drug Abuse and The National Institutes of Health (see our website for more information). You can trust us with your recovery.

When you are ready to reduce or stop drinking or using drugs, enrolling in Affect's revolutionary digital addiction treatment program gives you the expert help you need to truly succeed without having to go to a rehab clinic.

We beat the deadly game of addiction by changing the rules. Reward your recovery with Affect.

Ratings and reviews

So far the people that I have come into contact thru Affect are great but the app its self needs some work. There is one document that it will just not let me sign..I've tried a million times to hit the submit button after finishing what is supposed to be required..super frustrating. And The app is sort of slow overall...feels pretty buggy.

The app is buggy. This program takes a one size fits all approach to treatment. There is no way to communicate directly with the therapist. And quitting the program is difficult. I will update when I figure out how to do that. My last communication with the "care team" involved repeating myself ad nauseum to an unprofessional representative who sounded high. I'm not sure how to report the interaction. Everything about this program is cyclical and unhelpful and frustrating.

At first I was a little indifferent, initially you can only go through and do challenges and tasks. Once I actually met one of the counselors via zoom through the app I noticed that while the tasks only earn you 10 cents the meetings themselves earn more. I've actually been able to cash out which is genuinely a surprise to me, and it's an actual program that I can work without feeling pressured. Definitely recommend anyone who wants to gain an incentive to be sober.

What's new

Affect is the first integrated all-digital addiction recovery program to offer professional support and rewards as you succeed in treatment. Through our scientifically-proven approach, you can learn to reduce or quit alcohol, cannabis, meth, cocaine, opioids like heroin, or ADHD meds and develop new habits to keep you healthy. The program is private, convenient, and highly effective. It is delivered entirely through your smartphone. We have released updates and bug fixes in this new version.