Drug rehab serving Highland Beach — the specialist, 12 minutes away.

For Highland Beach residents along the A1A corridor, RECO Intensive offers something general behavioral-health offices in Boca cannot: a fully integrated addiction program with in-house psychiatry, medication-assisted treatment, and a primary therapist who follows clients through every level of care. The drive from Bel Lido Isle or Toscana is about twelve minutes, which keeps family involvement realistic during PHP and IOP. Clinical depth, not proximity alone, is the reason families choose RECO.

Highland Beach is the narrow oceanfront stretch between Delray and Boca Raton, a quiet barrier-island town where the loudest sound on most mornings is the Atlantic. From Bel Lido Isle, Toscana, or the Penthouse condominiums, RECO Intensive’s campus sits roughly seven miles north along A1A and Federal Highway, about twelve minutes by car. That short drive matters clinically. It means a resident of Boca Cove or Ocean Cove can attend a Partial Hospitalization day, return home in the evening, and still keep a family dinner. It also means the clinical density at RECO, which includes in-house addiction psychiatry, medication management, and substance-specific protocols, is genuinely accessible to a town whose own medical infrastructure is limited to general practices and outpatient behavioral health.

Drug rehab at RECO is built around the substances that actually appear in South Florida treatment admissions: opioids (including fentanyl-contaminated heroin and pressed pills), cocaine and other stimulants, methamphetamine, benzodiazepines, and the polysubstance combinations that have become the norm rather than the exception. Each of these has its own withdrawal profile, its own relapse drivers, and its own evidence base. Treating them with a single generic curriculum is one of the most common shortcomings in the industry, and it is the failure mode RECO is structured to avoid.

Substance-specific clinical protocols

Opioid use disorder, stimulant use disorder, and sedative use disorder are not interchangeable diagnoses. The medical management is different, the relapse-prevention work is different, and the psychiatric considerations are different. Opioid withdrawal is rarely medically dangerous but is intensely uncomfortable and carries a high near-term relapse and overdose risk; the clinical priority is stabilization on medication and engagement in therapy before discharge planning begins. Benzodiazepine and alcohol withdrawal, by contrast, can be medically dangerous and require a slow, supervised taper guided by symptom-triggered protocols. Stimulant use disorder has no FDA-approved medication and turns on behavioral interventions, sleep restoration, and treatment of the post-acute anhedonia that drives early relapse. RECO’s clinicians work within ASAM Criteria across all six dimensions, so the level of care assigned reflects withdrawal risk, medical complications, cognitive and emotional condition, readiness, relapse potential, and the recovery environment a client is returning to in Highland Beach or elsewhere.

Medication-assisted treatment where indicated

Medication-assisted treatment is one of the most heavily researched interventions in addiction medicine, and at RECO it is delivered in-house rather than referred out. For opioid use disorder, the program uses buprenorphine (including the long-acting Sublocade injection where appropriate) and extended-release naltrexone (Vivitrol), with the choice driven by patient history, prior trials, and patient preference. For alcohol use disorder, options include naltrexone, acamprosate, and disulfiram, again selected through shared decision-making with the prescribing addiction psychiatrist. Because the physicians who prescribe MAT are part of the same clinical team that runs the therapy program, dose adjustments and side-effect management happen in days, not weeks. A patient does not have to coordinate between a community psychiatrist in Boca and a separate therapy program; the chart, the case conference, and the treatment plan are unified. For families who want a deeper look at opioid-specific care, the heroin and opioid treatment page explains the medical pathway in more detail.

Behavioral therapy across the continuum

Medication addresses physiology. The work of staying sober is therapeutic. RECO’s evidence-based foundation is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Trauma-Focused CBT, with EMDR available for clients whose trauma histories warrant it. CBT gives clients a structured way to identify and interrupt the thought-behavior cycles that maintain use. DBT skills, particularly distress tolerance and emotion regulation, are matched to clients whose relapse is driven by emotional dysregulation. Motivational Interviewing is woven throughout to keep ambivalence on the table rather than papered over. What ties the modalities together is therapeutic continuity: each client is assigned a primary therapist who carries them from detox or residential care through PHP, IOP, and into aftercare. The same person hears the early disclosures and is still in the room six months later when the client is rebuilding a life in Bel Lido or returning to work. That continuity is rare in addiction care and is one of the most consistent things alumni cite.

Co-occurring mental health treatment

A majority of clients who walk into a drug rehab admission also meet criteria for at least one other psychiatric diagnosis. Major depressive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, generalized anxiety, ADHD, and bipolar II disorder are the most common. Treating substance use without treating the underlying condition is one of the clearer drivers of relapse, because the original reason the substance worked, whether it muted intrusive memories, quieted social anxiety, or stabilized mood, never went away. RECO’s dual-diagnosis program treats both concurrently. Psychiatric evaluation is part of intake. Non-addictive psychotropic medication, when indicated, is prescribed and monitored by the same physicians managing MAT. Trauma processing is paced to the client’s stability and is not pushed into the first week of sobriety. This is the standard for any program that takes complex presentations seriously, and it is the standard a family in Highland Beach should expect when evaluating any local option.

Local proof points, insurance, and how to start

For a Highland Beach household, the practical questions are usually about logistics and coverage. RECO is in-network with most major commercial insurers, including Aetna, Cigna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and several large regional plans. The admissions team runs a verification of benefits before any clinical recommendation is made, so families know the out-of-pocket picture in advance rather than after the fact. The insurance verification page outlines what information is needed and what a typical benefits summary looks like. For clients who need a structured living environment during outpatient care, RECO operates a gender-specific sober-living network in Delray Beach within the same clinical ecosystem. Starting is straightforward: a phone call to (866) 396-2008 reaches a clinician, not a call center, and an initial conversation typically takes twenty to thirty minutes. From Highland Beach, a same-day in-person assessment is realistic given the twelve-minute drive.

Serving residents of: Bel Lido Isle, Boca Cove, Ocean Cove, Toscana, Penthouse.