Roxicodone, OxyContin, Percocet, and other oxycodone-based prescription opioids drive a significant portion of America's opioid crisis. Many clients arrived at illicit-opioid use through a prescription that was legitimate at first and progressed over years. RECO Intensive treats prescription-opioid use disorder with full continuum of care in Delray Beach, FL.
The clinical picture of prescription opioid use disorder
Prescription opioid addiction often begins with a legitimate prescription for acute or chronic pain. The progression to use disorder is gradual; many clients don't recognize the pattern until tolerance, withdrawal, and compulsion are well established. Clinical features:
- Tolerance escalation — needing more for the same pain relief or felt effect
- Withdrawal when between doses — flu-like symptoms, anxiety, body aches
- Doctor-shopping or unconventional sourcing as legitimate prescriptions become insufficient
- Snorting, crushing, or IV use of pills to bypass time-release formulations
- Transition to heroin or fentanyl when pills become unaffordable or unavailable
- Underlying chronic pain — often unaddressed by clinical-recovery approaches that ignore pain
How RECO treats prescription opioid use disorder
Medical detox with MAT bridge
Our medical detox manages opioid withdrawal with comfort medications, often paired with buprenorphine induction if MAT is part of the treatment plan. Withdrawal is unpleasant but survivable with the right clinical support.
Pain-aware treatment planning
Many prescription-opioid clients have legitimate underlying pain. We don't pretend that pain disappears with sobriety. Our clinical team works with you on alternative pain management — physical therapy referrals, non-opioid medications, mind-body approaches, and (where appropriate) coordination with pain specialists.
MAT — Suboxone, Vivitrol, naltrexone
Medication-Assisted Treatment is the standard of care for opioid use disorder. Buprenorphine (Suboxone) reduces cravings and withdrawal. Naltrexone (oral or monthly Vivitrol) blocks opioid effects. The choice depends on your clinical picture; our psychiatric provider works through it with you.
Trauma processing for the layer underneath
Where opioid use began as pain management, the pain was often emotional as much as physical. EMDR, individual psychotherapy, and trauma-of-addiction group work address the layer underneath.
Who this track serves
Clients with active oxycodone, OxyContin, Percocet, or Vicodin use. Clients whose prescription opioid use progressed from chronic pain. Clients transitioning between prescription opioids and heroin/fentanyl. Healthcare workers whose access to prescription opioids drove their use. Anyone whose prescription opioid use has crossed into addiction.
What prescription opioid recovery looks like at RECO
Detox → residential → PHP → IOP → sober living → aftercare, with MAT continuity throughout if clinically indicated. Long-term MAT is appropriate for many opioid-recovery clients — we don't pressure clients off MAT before they're ready. Aftercare coordinates continued psychiatric and (where applicable) pain-management care.
Why RECO's approach is different
Many programs separate pain from addiction and treat one without the other. We treat them together — because the pain that was driving the opioid use is still there in early recovery, and ignoring it produces relapse. Comprehensive, MAT-friendly, pain-aware opioid recovery in Delray Beach.