Outpatient addiction treatment, 20 minutes from Boca Raton.

Boca Raton has a few outpatient programs, but most are general behavioral health practices that treat addiction as a sideline. RECO Intensive is the regional specialist — PHP, IOP, in-house psychiatry, sober-living network, and a continuum of care that follows you for years after discharge. The drive from downtown Boca is 20 minutes — about the time you'd spend in traffic on Glades anyway.

If you live in Boca Raton and are weighing outpatient addiction treatment, the geography works in your favor in a way that often goes unmentioned: RECO Intensive’s Delray Beach campus sits roughly 11 miles north, a 20-minute drive up Federal Highway from Mizner Park or Royal Palm Place. That distance is short enough to preserve the structure of a daily life — school drop-off in Boca West, an evening walk along the Highland Beach stretch of A1A, dinner at home in Downtown Boca — while still placing you inside a clinical program built around ASAM-level criteria rather than a generic counseling schedule. For many Boca Raton residents, the question is not whether to leave town for care, but how to fit PHP- or IOP-level treatment into the rhythm of a life that is already here. The paragraphs below walk through how that actually works in practice.

What outpatient addiction treatment actually means

Outpatient treatment is not a single thing. It is a continuum that spans from a few hours of group therapy per week all the way to six or more clinical hours per day, five days a week. For residents of Boca Raton seeking help for a substance use disorder, understanding where on that continuum you belong is the first clinical decision — and it matters more than which facility you choose.

RECO Intensive operates two main outpatient levels: Partial Hospitalization (PHP) and Intensive Outpatient (IOP). PHP typically runs 30 or more clinical hours per week and is appropriate for people who need the density of inpatient care but whose home or sober-living environment is stable enough to support overnight stays outside a residential facility. IOP runs roughly 15 hours per week and suits people who have stabilized at PHP or who enter treatment at a lower severity.

Who outpatient is the right fit for

Level-of-care criteria are not arbitrary. The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) criteria assess six dimensions: intoxication and withdrawal risk, medical conditions, emotional and behavioral conditions, readiness to change, relapse potential, and living environment. A clinical intake at RECO reviews all six before placing you in a level of care. Outpatient is appropriate when withdrawal risk is manageable, medical comorbidities do not require 24-hour nursing, and the home or sober-living setting supports recovery.

For many Boca Raton clients, outpatient works precisely because of geography. The drive from Mizner Park or Royal Palm Place to our Delray Beach campus is roughly 20 minutes — short enough that PHP becomes a genuine daily structure rather than a disruptive commute. You attend programming in the morning and early afternoon, return to a sober-living residence or your own home in the evening, and maintain the routines — work calls, parenting obligations, financial responsibilities — that full residential requires you to pause.

What a PHP day looks like

A PHP day at RECO is structured from arrival to departure. Morning groups focus on psychoeducation and skill-building using evidence-based modalities including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy skill modules, and Motivational Interviewing. Individual sessions with your primary therapist occur multiple times per week. Afternoons incorporate experiential therapies — art therapy, music therapy, and movement-based approaches that help clients process material that is difficult to access through talk therapy alone. Medical and psychiatric appointments are embedded in the schedule, not bolted on as separate referrals.

Midday, clients eat together. That sounds minor. It is not. Shared meals rebuild the social rhythms that active addiction tends to destroy, and they give clinical staff informal observation time that structured groups cannot replicate.

Sober living as part of the treatment plan

RECO operates its own network of sober-living residences in Delray Beach. For Boca Raton clients who need a structured living environment during PHP, this means the housing and the clinical programming are coordinated by the same organization. House managers communicate with clinical staff. Curfews, drug testing, and house rules are consistent with the treatment plan rather than operating independently of it.

After PHP, the step-down to IOP and then to aftercare follows a plan built during treatment, not improvised at discharge. Alumni programming, continued individual therapy, and peer support maintain the gains made in intensive treatment during the transition back to full independence.

Insurance and admissions from Boca Raton

RECO verifies benefits for Florida Blue, Aetna, Cigna, UnitedHealthcare, and Humana. The admissions team handles verification calls directly and can usually confirm coverage within a few minutes. If you are calling from Boca Raton and unsure whether outpatient or a higher level of care is the right starting point, a clinical intake coordinator can walk through the ASAM criteria with you before you commit to anything. Call (866) 396-2008 any time.

For a full overview of what the PHP and IOP programs include, visit our PHP program page and IOP program page. For substance-specific questions, the alcohol treatment and opioid treatment sections cover medication options in detail.

Serving residents of: Mizner Park, Royal Palm Place, Downtown Boca, Boca West, Highland Beach.