Drug rehab serving Pompano Beach — the specialist, 28 minutes away.

RECO's Delray campus sits 18 miles north of Pompano Beach on I-95, about 28 minutes from Cresthaven and Lighthouse Point. Far enough to step out of the local using environment without uprooting family or work. Substance-specific protocols, in-house addiction psychiatry for MAT, and one primary therapist across every level of care are the practical differences.

From Pompano Beach, the run up to RECO Intensive’s Delray Beach campus is 18 miles on I-95, roughly 28 minutes outside of rush hour, a touch longer if you leave Cresthaven during morning crush. That distance matters more than it looks on a map. For someone whose use has wound itself into the streets between Federal Highway and the beach, having treatment 28 minutes north creates real separation from familiar triggers, dealers, and the bars and friends’ apartments that have become part of the daily pattern. At the same time, you are not in another state, another climate, or another time zone. Families in Lighthouse Point can still come to family therapy sessions on a weeknight. Clients can return home for a graduation, a funeral, or a job interview without a flight. The clinical work happens at sufficient remove from the local scene to be useful; the social fabric that supports long-term recovery stays intact.

RECO’s drug rehab program addresses the substances we actually see in Broward and Palm Beach counties: opioids (heroin, fentanyl, prescription oxycodone), cocaine and crack, methamphetamine, benzodiazepines, and the polysubstance patterns that are now more common than any single-substance presentation. Rather than running one generic curriculum, the clinical team builds different medical, behavioral, and psychiatric protocols around the specific substance and the specific person. What follows is how that looks in practice.

Substance-specific clinical protocols

Opioid use disorder, stimulant use disorder, and sedative use disorder are not interchangeable diagnoses, and treating them as if they were is one of the more common failures of lower-acuity programs. Opioid withdrawal is rarely medically dangerous on its own but is intensely uncomfortable and carries a high risk of immediate return to use; stabilization typically involves buprenorphine induction, careful symptom management, and an early conversation about long-term medication. Stimulant use disorder, by contrast, has no FDA-approved pharmacotherapy, and the clinical work centers on managing the protracted dysphoria, anhedonia, and cognitive fog of early abstinence, a different therapeutic posture entirely. Benzodiazepine withdrawal is the one that can kill you if mishandled; tapering schedules at RECO are physician-managed, often over weeks rather than days, with vigilance for seizure risk. Polysubstance presentations get sequenced thoughtfully rather than addressed all at once. The point is that the assessment in the first 48 hours actually shapes the protocol, instead of routing everyone into the same group room.

Medication-assisted treatment where indicated

Medication-assisted treatment is not a separate track at RECO; it is woven into the clinical plan when the evidence supports it. For opioid use disorder, that usually means buprenorphine/naloxone during stabilization, with an honest conversation later about whether to taper, maintain, or transition to extended-release naltrexone (Vivitrol). For alcohol use disorder, naltrexone, acamprosate, and disulfiram are all on the table depending on drinking pattern, liver function, and patient preference. RECO’s in-house addiction psychiatrists prescribe and follow these medications themselves; they are not handed off to an outside provider the client is supposed to find on their own after discharge. That continuity matters: the same physician who initiates buprenorphine in residential care can adjust the dose during PHP and write the maintenance prescription that follows the client into IOP and beyond.

Behavioral therapy across the continuum

The evidence-based therapies (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Trauma-Focused CBT, and EMDR for clients with significant trauma histories) are the daily substance of clinical hours, not branding on a website. What distinguishes RECO’s structure is that every client is assigned one primary therapist who follows them through detox, residential, PHP, IOP, and into aftercare. The relationship does not reset every time the level of care steps down. For someone with a long history of fragmented treatment, a detox here, a 28-day stay there, an outpatient referral that never quite materialized, that single thread of therapeutic continuity is often the variable that finally makes the work stick. Group programming runs alongside individual sessions and is matched to phase of recovery rather than mixed indiscriminately.

Co-occurring mental health treatment

Roughly half to two-thirds of people entering addiction treatment also meet criteria for a co-occurring psychiatric condition, most commonly major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety, PTSD, ADHD, or bipolar II. Treating the substance use without treating the underlying psychiatric condition is one of the more reliable ways to set up relapse. RECO’s dual-diagnosis program runs both treatments concurrently: psychiatric evaluation in the first week, medication management by the same in-house psychiatrists handling MAT, and trauma-specific therapy integrated into the individual schedule rather than offered as an optional add-on. Diagnostic clarity often takes time; a depressive episode in early opioid abstinence may look identical to protracted withdrawal, so the psychiatric formulation is revisited as the picture stabilizes.

How clients from Pompano Beach get started

The intake process is built around a clinical phone assessment rather than a sales pitch. A clinician asks about substances used, frequency and quantity, last use, prior treatment episodes, current medications, and medical and psychiatric history, then makes an ASAM-criteria-informed recommendation for level of care across Dimensions 1 through 6, covering withdrawal risk, biomedical conditions, emotional and behavioral conditions, readiness to change, relapse potential, and recovery environment. For most clients arriving from Pompano Beach, Sea Ranch Lakes, or Hillsboro Shores, that recommendation lands somewhere between medical detox followed by residential, or direct admission to PHP with sober-living housing. Insurance is verified the same day in almost every case; RECO is in-network with most major commercial carriers and can run a benefits check before you commit to anything (see insurance verification for specifics). If you would rather read more about substance-specific care first, the opioid program and alcohol program pages go deeper into the medical protocols mentioned above. Calling (866) 396-2008 reaches an admissions clinician, not a call center.

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