Residential addiction treatment for Pompano Beach families.

For Pompano Beach families, RECO offers eighteen miles of clinical separation from the local scene without leaving South Florida. Residential placement is guided by ASAM criteria rather than a sales script, the same clinical team continues into PHP and IOP, and the six Delray residences are real houses staffed by recovery-trained managers — not warehoused beds. Most major insurance is in-network, and admissions gives families a straight answer about cost up front.

The drive from Pompano Beach up to RECO’s Delray Beach campus is eighteen miles on I-95 — roughly twenty-eight minutes when traffic cooperates, longer during the morning push toward Boca. For families in Cresthaven, Lighthouse Point, Sea Ranch Lakes, or Hillsboro Shores, that distance does something specific clinically: it puts genuine separation between the client and the people, places, and patterns that have been reinforcing active use, while keeping the program inside the same broader South Florida community where most of our clients have roots. Residential treatment is not about going away to disappear. It is about creating enough structural distance — and enough 24-hour clinical structure — that the work of early recovery actually has room to take hold.

RECO’s residential program is designed for the earliest stable phase of recovery: the window after acute withdrawal risk has passed but before the daily skills of sober living are anywhere close to automatic. Most clients stay 30 to 60 days before stepping down to partial hospitalization. The page that follows is meant to give a Pompano Beach family enough information to decide whether residential is the right starting point, and what the next several months would actually look like if a loved one began here.

When residential is the clinical indication

Residential is the appropriate level of care when the clinical picture calls for 24-hour structure that a lower level of care cannot provide. Three patterns come up most often. The first is a home environment that isn’t safe or stable enough to support recovery — a household where substances are present, a roommate situation that’s part of the use pattern, or a living arrangement that can’t realistically be modified in the near term. The second is the client who has cycled through outpatient programs (including high-quality ones) and not been able to hold the gains; the structure of returning home each night has not been enough. The third is the early-recovery client whose co-occurring picture — anxiety, depression, trauma symptoms, sleep disruption — needs the kind of stabilization that’s much harder to do while also trying to manage work, family, and a household.

RECO uses the ASAM Criteria to make this placement decision rather than a marketing intake script. The six ASAM dimensions cover withdrawal potential, biomedical conditions, emotional/behavioral/cognitive conditions, readiness to change, relapse potential, and recovery environment. When several of those dimensions point toward higher-intensity care, residential is what the criteria call for. When the picture is mixed, an honest conversation about residential versus PHP with sober-living support is the right starting point — and we have that conversation directly, not through a script.

What 30 to 60 days of residential actually covers

A residential month is not 30 days of sitting in groups waiting for time to pass. The clinical content is dense, and the structure of the day is part of the treatment. Mornings open with a check-in and process group. Mid-morning brings the substantive modality work: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for the thought patterns that drive use, Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance, Motivational Interviewing for ambivalence about change, and — for clients with trauma histories — EMDR or Trauma-Focused CBT once the clinical team judges the client stable enough to engage that work without destabilizing.

Individual therapy runs weekly at minimum, often twice weekly in the first few weeks. Psychiatry is available for clients who need medication evaluation or adjustment, including medication-assisted treatment with naltrexone, acamprosate, or Vivitrol for alcohol use disorder and buprenorphine for opioid use disorder when clinically indicated. Family work begins early — usually by week two — because the family system has been adapting to active addiction for a long time and needs its own work to support what the client is doing. Underneath all of that, the residential month does something less glamorous but arguably more important: it rebuilds sleep, nutrition, exercise, and daily rhythm. Active addiction tears those rhythms apart. Recovery requires them back.

The step-down to PHP and IOP

Residential is the beginning of a continuum, not a discharge plan in itself. The typical clinical arc from RECO looks like this: residential for 30 to 60 days, PHP for 4 to 6 weeks, then IOP for 8 to 12 weeks, then aftercare and alumni programming that can continue for as long as the client finds it useful. Each step decreases clinical intensity while increasing the client’s responsibility for managing their own recovery — and the change at each step is calibrated to what the individual client is ready for, not a fixed schedule.

One thing worth flagging for Pompano families specifically: the clinical team that runs your loved one’s residential treatment continues with them into PHP and IOP. There is no handoff to a different agency, no new therapist to start over with, no new intake. Continuity of clinical relationship is one of the most reliably predictive factors in long-term outcomes, and we have built the program so that continuity is the default rather than the exception.

Real residences, not warehoused beds

RECO operates six residences in Delray Beach. They are real houses in real neighborhoods, not converted commercial space. Each one is held to the standard we would want for our own family — clean, calm, well-maintained, with enough space that a client isn’t living on top of seven roommates. House managers are addiction-recovery trained and live on-site; they are not security guards. The residential environment is part of the clinical model, not just housing attached to a treatment center.

That matters more than it sounds. The hours between groups — evenings, weekends, the quiet stretches — are when the work of recovery either consolidates or unravels. A residence that supports recovery in those hours is doing real clinical work even when no therapist is in the room. For Pompano clients in particular, who often come from neighborhoods only twenty-eight minutes south, having a residential environment that genuinely feels different from the environment they left is part of why the geographic distance matters.

Insurance, local proof points, and how to start

RECO is in-network with most major commercial carriers — Aetna, Cigna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and others — and works with out-of-network benefits when that’s what a family has. Our admissions team verifies coverage in real time and gives a straight answer about what residential will and won’t cost before a client commits. You can start that process at our insurance verification page or by calling (866) 396-2008 directly. For Pompano Beach families, the practical logistics are simple: drive up I-95 to the Atlantic Avenue exit, and the campus is a few minutes east. If alcohol or opioids are the primary concern, our alcohol and opioid treatment pages cover substance-specific clinical detail that goes beyond what’s on this page. A first call doesn’t commit anyone to anything — it’s a clinical conversation about whether residential is the right starting point, and what the alternative would look like if it isn’t.

Serving residents of: Cresthaven, Lighthouse Point, Sea Ranch Lakes, Hillsboro Shores.