Residential addiction treatment for Coral Springs families.

Coral Springs and Parkland families looking at residential addiction treatment usually run into the same gap: local options handle psychiatric stabilization well but don't carry the same depth on substance-use medicine or the step-down network. RECO sits 25 miles east — about 35 minutes on the Sawgrass and I-95 — and runs the residential, PHP, and IOP phases under one clinical team rather than handing clients between providers. For families in Eagle Trace, Heron Bay, or Parkland Isles, that's the practical difference: one treatment plan, one set of clinicians, one continuous record from intake through alumni.

If you’re searching from Coral Springs or Parkland, the drive to RECO is about 35 minutes — east on the Sawgrass Expressway, south on I-95, exit at Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach. Twenty-five miles is close enough that families in Eagle Trace, Hidden Hammocks, Parkland Isles, Cypress Run, or Heron Bay can visit on family-therapy days without it becoming a logistical project. It’s also far enough that someone leaving residential isn’t running into the same liquor store, the same dealer, or the same group of friends that shaped the addiction in the first place. That geography matters more than it sounds. For most Coral Springs families weighing a residential admission, the real question isn’t whether to go to treatment — it’s whether to stay in Broward County for something convenient or drive a little farther for a program with specialist-level addiction medicine and a treatment-community network that South Florida has been building for decades.

RECO Intensive is a clinically-led outpatient and residential addiction program based in Delray Beach, Florida. The residential level of care is the first step for many of our clients — the 24-hour structure that supports the earliest, most fragile phase of recovery, after acute withdrawal risk has passed but before early-recovery skills are reliable enough to hold up under day-to-day pressure. Most clients spend 30 to 60 days at the residential level before stepping down. What follows is a straight description of who residential is for, what the days actually look like, and how the step-down works.

When residential is the clinical indication

Residential treatment is appropriate when 24-hour structure is clinically necessary, when the home environment isn’t safe or stable enough to support recovery, or when prior outpatient episodes haven’t held. The placement decision isn’t arbitrary — it follows the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) criteria, which evaluate six dimensions: acute intoxication and withdrawal potential, biomedical conditions, emotional and behavioral or cognitive conditions, readiness to change, relapse and continued use potential, and recovery environment.

That last dimension — recovery environment — is where a lot of Coral Springs admissions land. A client may be medically stable and motivated, but the household includes an actively using partner, easy access to alcohol, untreated trauma triggers, or work pressures that overwhelm any early-recovery toolkit. Residential removes the environmental variable for a defined window while the clinical work begins. It is not a punishment, and it is not a permanent solution. It is a structured runway.

What 30 to 60 days of residential actually covers

The clinical day is built around group and individual therapy, with psychiatry as needed and medication-assisted treatment when it’s indicated. For alcohol use disorder, that may mean naltrexone or acamprosate. For opioid use disorder, it may mean buprenorphine or extended-release naltrexone (Vivitrol). Medication decisions are made by the prescribing clinician with the client — not as a default, and not withheld based on ideology.

Therapy modalities are matched to what the client needs. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and motivational interviewing (MI) are core; dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills are layered in for clients with strong emotion-regulation needs; EMDR and Trauma-Focused CBT are available for the substantial portion of clients whose substance use is downstream of unresolved trauma. Family sessions are scheduled regularly — typically weekly — because the family system is part of the recovery environment a client will eventually return to.

Beyond the formal clinical hours, residential rebuilds the daily rhythms active addiction tends to erase. Sleep on a schedule. Three meals a day. Exercise. A morning. An evening. Structure that, over weeks, starts to feel less like an imposition and more like a baseline a person can carry forward.

The step-down to PHP and IOP

Residential is the start of a continuum, not the whole treatment. Most clients step down to partial hospitalization (PHP) for four to six weeks, then to intensive outpatient (IOP) for eight to twelve weeks, then to aftercare and alumni programming. The clinical team that ran point in residential continues into PHP and IOP. The therapist a client trusts in week two of residential is the same therapist in week six of PHP and week ten of IOP. Records don’t get re-faxed. History doesn’t get re-explained.

For Coral Springs families, that continuity is usually the deciding factor. The step-downs to PHP and IOP can be completed while living in our affiliated sober-living network in Delray Beach, or — for clients with a stable, recovery-supportive home — by commuting in from Coral Springs for the IOP phase. Both paths get discussed during the residential treatment-planning meetings, not at discharge.

Real residences, not warehoused beds

RECO operates six residential properties in Delray Beach. They are houses, not dormitories. Each property is held to the standards we’d want for our own family — clean, well-maintained, appropriately staffed. House managers are trained in addiction recovery and live on-site; they are not security guards, and they are not roommates without context. The residential environment is part of the clinical model. It is one of the variables we control on purpose so that group therapy in the morning isn’t undone by the housing setting in the evening.

This matters more for some substance-use profiles than others. For clients with alcohol use disorder, the structured environment removes ambient cues that drive craving. For clients with opioid use disorder, the combination of MAT, structured housing, and group support during weeks two through six is well-supported in the outcome literature.

Insurance, intake, and how Coral Springs families typically start

RECO is in-network with most major commercial carriers, including Aetna, Cigna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and several others. Insurance verification is a no-cost call — we run benefits, confirm what’s covered at each level of care, and give a clear estimate of what the family will owe. Most Coral Springs admissions start with that phone call, followed by a clinical screen with our intake team, then transport arrangements that often take the same day. If you’re calling from Eagle Trace at noon, a bed in Delray by evening is a normal timeline, not an exception.

Serving residents of: Eagle Trace, Hidden Hammocks, Parkland Isles, Cypress Run, Heron Bay.