How this site is written, and who pays for it.

Who writes it

One person, with an AI used as a drafting and review tool. Nothing is published without being read by James, and the AI guide on the site is labelled as an AI in its own first line every time.

Who pays for it

Readers, through membership at the network console. Nobody else. No clinic, broker, treatment provider, fellowship, insurer, medication company or law firm has ever paid for content, placement, mention or a link on this network, and no referral fee has ever been accepted. There are no affiliate links and no advertising.

This matters more here than on most sites, because the relative with money is the most heavily marketed-to person in this whole subject.

What is refused

• No named clinic recommendations, rankings, shortlists or comparisons, ever
• No diagnosis of anybody, from any description
• No verdict on contact: never advised to cut it, never advised to keep it
• No judgement of a relative as enabling or as not doing enough
• No doses, tapers, detox schedules or home-detox plans
• No confrontation-style intervention scripts, which need a trained person in the room
• No prediction about whether somebody will stop, relapse or recover
• No telephone numbers, because they differ by country and change
• No price figures in the pages or from the guide; the figure lives on the join page
• No commercial prompt shown to somebody describing an emergency

How safety is handled

Every message to the guide passes a narrow safety check first. Acute medical emergencies described second-hand, physical withdrawal, a partner or child who is not safe, an older relative at risk, drunk driving, and crisis in the reader all stop the ordinary conversation and produce a short response naming the appropriate route. That happens whether or not any allowance is left, because safety routes are never counted and never withheld.

Sources, and admitting the limits

Where a factual claim about treatment, medication, outcomes or the way services work is made, it is sourced or it is marked as one person's experience. Nothing is invented — not a study, not a statistic, not an organisation, not a success rate. The long reference material for this network is kept once, on the encyclopedia at sober.guide, rather than rewritten badly on every site.

Corrections are made in place. If something here is wrong, it is changed rather than argued with.