For Veterans, Active Duty & Military Families
Addiction and trauma care, built for those who served.
A private, at-home program that treats alcohol and substance use, and the trauma underneath it. No facility. No judgment. No career on the line.
Designed in collaboration with service members, NorthStar delivers a full year of medical, behavioral, and peer support, entirely from home, entirely anonymous. We treat the whole picture: the drinking or substance use, and the PTSD, depression, and anxiety that so often drive it.
Service leaves a mark that 30 days can't undo.
For many who serve, alcohol or substances become a way to manage what training never prepared them for, trauma, loss, pain, and the weight of carrying it alone. Over time, self-medication stops working and starts compounding. The use and the trauma feed each other, and treating one without the other rarely holds.
The barrier: Traditional rehab asks you to disappear for 30 days, to step away from your command, your career, your security clearance, and your family. So people wait. Or they never go. NorthStar removes that trade-off entirely.
A program that works the way military life actually works.
Every part of NorthStar was designed to fit a life you can't put on hold, and to respect the reasons service members hesitate to ask for help.
Completely private. Completely at home.
No facility, no sign-in sheet, no record of you walking through a door. Peer groups meet in virtual reality using anonymous avatars, so you can be fully honest without ever being identified. For anyone weighing a career or a clearance, privacy isn't a perk. It's the reason care becomes possible.
A full year of care, not 30 days
The brain doesn't heal in a month. NorthStar provides 365 days of wraparound support, with a care team that adjusts as your life and your recovery evolve, the kind of continuity that protects long-term readiness instead of resetting the clock at "Day 31."
Treatment matched to your biology
Genetic testing helps your physician choose the medications and nutrients most likely to work for you, reducing the trial-and-error that derails early recovery. Targeted nutrient repletion helps restore sleep, energy, and cognition that chronic alcohol and substance use deplete.
Peer support with others who served
Connect with people who share your experience in dedicated veterans' peer groups, held anonymously in VR. It's the camaraderie and candor of a unit, without exposure, and without leaving home.
A 9-person care team, including veterans
From day one you're supported by a dedicated nine-member clinical team: a supervising physician, an advanced practice clinician, a licensed therapist, registered nurses, peer guides with lived experience, and a care navigator. Our team includes veterans who understand military culture firsthand, because being understood is part of the treatment.
The whole picture, treated together
Alcohol and substance use rarely travel alone. NorthStar treats co-occurring PTSD, depression, and anxiety alongside the substance use, in one coordinated plan, because addressing the use while ignoring the trauma is why so many programs fail.
Support for the family, too
Military families carry the weight of service alongside their loved one. NorthStar includes family education and support, so the people closest to you can heal and help, not just watch and worry.
We don't guess. We measure.
Your care is guided by validated, measurement-based tools, re-administered over the course of treatment so you and your team can see real, tracked change, not just how you feel on a given day. It's the same measurement-based approach the VA recommends for this exact work. Here's what those tools actually show across NorthStar patients, and why each one matters most for those who've served.
of patients with clinical-level PTSD dropped below the diagnostic threshold by their last check-in, symptom scores fell 41.9 → 29.5 (large effect).
For veterans: PTSD is the engine behind so much service-related drinking. Resolve the trauma and the pull toward alcohol loosens with it.
improved by at least one full severity level, an average drop of 5 points (11.1 → 6.1), a large clinical effect (Cohen's d = 0.91).
For veterans: Depression and return-to-use travel together. Lifting it protects the recovery you've worked for.
of patients sit in the moderate-to-severe range at intake, by their last GAD-7 that's cut to about 1 in 5 (scores 9.8 → 6.2).
For veterans: Anxiety drives craving and wrecks sleep. Calmer nights make everything else in treatment hold.
of patients are at or above the legal limit at intake; by their final breath-alcohol reading, only about 5% are, objective, not self-reported (avg. 0.097 → 0.009).
For veterans: Real, verified proof the drinking is coming down, tracked daily at home, never on the honor system.
As your scores move, your plan moves with them.
Figures are NorthStar's measured clinical outcomes across patients (internal analyses, Dec 2025). PTSD is tracked with the PTSD Checklist (PCL-C); alcohol use with continuous remote breath-alcohol monitoring. These outcomes reflect the full patient population, and map directly to the conditions that hit service members hardest.
Getting started is private, fast, and built around you.
No waitlist. No intake facility. It begins with a single confidential conversation about your history, your goals, and whether NorthStar is the right fit, no pressure, no obligation. Once you decide to move forward, your treatment kit ships within 48 hours and your nine-person care team is behind you from day one.
Coverage
We work with insurance to make care accessible. Reach out and our team will help you understand your options and verify your coverage before you commit to anything.
A private talk about your history and goals. No pressure, no obligation, no record of walking through a door.
Everything you need arrives at home, no facility, no travel, no time away from your command or family.
A full clinical team, including veterans who get military culture, behind you for a full year.
"As a Battalion Commander, alcohol-related incidents were the single biggest issue that affected readiness across my formation. NorthStar's approach offers a pathway to responsible alcohol use for our active duty and veterans. It's science-based, and the first solution I've seen that works. Because the platform is virtual, scheduling is based on your availability, while still allowing you to maintain anonymity."
A story, in their own words.
Sometimes it lands harder coming from someone who's been there. Watch a member of the military community share their experience with NorthStar.