Outpatient addiction treatment, 28 minutes from Pompano Beach.

For families in Pompano Beach, the 28-minute drive up I-95 to RECO's Delray Beach campus puts meaningful distance between a client and the local triggers around Cresthaven or the beach districts, while keeping family close enough for weekend visits and family therapy. RECO holds the same primary therapist across PHP and IOP, so the working relationship doesn't reset when a client steps down. Sober-living housing is operated directly by RECO when the home environment isn't yet stable.

From Pompano Beach, RECO Intensive’s Delray Beach campus sits 18 miles north up I-95 — roughly 28 minutes outside the morning crush around Atlantic Boulevard. That distance matters clinically. It’s far enough to create real separation from the bars, the dealers, and the friend groups tied to active use in neighborhoods like Cresthaven or along the Hillsboro Shores stretch, but close enough that family members can drive up for Saturday family sessions and a client’s support system doesn’t have to be rebuilt from scratch. For most Pompano-area clients, that geography is the right balance — same broader South Florida community, a different daily environment.

RECO operates a full outpatient continuum: Partial Hospitalization (PHP) at roughly 30+ hours per week and Intensive Outpatient (IOP) at about 15 hours per week. Both programs share the same clinical team, the same evidence-based modalities, and — importantly — the same primary therapist as a client steps down between levels of care. That continuity is one of the more underappreciated variables in long-term outcomes.

What outpatient addiction treatment actually means

Outpatient treatment is not a single thing. It’s a continuum that runs from standard outpatient — a therapy session once or twice a week — all the way up to PHP, where a client is in structured clinical programming for six to seven hours a day, five days a week. The clinical difference between those poles is enormous.

For someone with a moderate to severe substance use disorder, standard outpatient is almost never the right starting point. The hours are too thin to interrupt a daily use pattern, and there isn’t enough time to do the trauma work, the relapse-prevention work, and the medication management that recovery from alcohol or opioid dependence typically requires. PHP and IOP are the densities where real clinical change tends to happen — enough hours to establish new patterns, but without the cost or disruption of 24-hour residential care.

Both PHP and IOP at RECO use a mix of group therapy, individual sessions, and psychiatric care. Modalities include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills groups, Motivational Interviewing, EMDR for trauma processing, and Trauma-Focused CBT where indicated. Medication-Assisted Treatment is available for both alcohol and opioid use disorders — including naltrexone (oral and Vivitrol), acamprosate, and buprenorphine, prescribed and managed by RECO’s psychiatric providers.

Who outpatient is the right fit for

The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) publishes the criteria most clinicians use to decide on level of care. The criteria assess six dimensions: acute intoxication and withdrawal potential, biomedical conditions, emotional and behavioral conditions, readiness to change, relapse risk, and recovery environment. Outpatient — at any density — is appropriate when withdrawal risk is manageable on an ambulatory basis, when there’s no medical issue requiring 24-hour nursing, and when psychiatric symptoms are stable enough that a client can engage in groups.

The recovery-environment dimension is where Pompano clients sometimes need a closer look. If the home environment includes an actively using partner, easy access to substances, or untreated conflict that destabilizes the work in session, PHP or IOP alone may not be sufficient. In those cases, the clinical team will often recommend pairing PHP with sober living for the first 30 to 90 days.

Clients coming off heavier alcohol or benzodiazepine use, or those with a recent overdose history, are first evaluated for medical detox. RECO doesn’t operate a detox facility, but the admissions team coordinates directly with trusted detox partners and accepts clients on the step-down side, so the handoff is clinical rather than logistical.

What a PHP day looks like

A PHP day at RECO runs Monday through Friday, typically from mid-morning through mid-afternoon. The day is structured rather than a scattering of appointments. Clients arrive, attend a process group, transition to a skills-based group (DBT skills, relapse-prevention work, or a CBT-focused module), take a lunch break with the cohort, and then move into a second clinical block — often experiential work like art therapy, music therapy, or a trauma-focused process group.

Individual therapy with the primary therapist happens once or twice a week, scheduled into the clinical day rather than tacked on. Psychiatry appointments — for medication management, for MAT, for co-occurring depression or anxiety treatment — happen on a cadence the prescriber sets, typically every two to four weeks once stable.

IOP is the same clinical architecture at lower density: three groups per day, three days per week, with individual therapy on a similar cadence. Most Pompano-area clients step down from PHP to IOP after four to six weeks, then continue in IOP for another six to eight weeks before transitioning to weekly aftercare and alumni programming.

Sober living as part of the treatment plan

RECO owns and operates its own network of sober-living residences in Delray Beach, within a short drive of the clinical campus. This isn’t a referral relationship — the houses are staffed by RECO, the house rules are aligned with the clinical program, and the house managers communicate directly with the primary therapist when something needs attention.

For Pompano clients, sober living is recommended when the home environment is part of the relapse pattern. A spouse who drinks heavily, an apartment shared with someone in active use, or a neighborhood where the client’s old use network is geographically close — these are the situations where the clinical work in PHP can be undone every evening by going home. Stepping into a structured sober-living house, even for 30 to 90 days, gives the clinical work somewhere to land.

Sober living is coordinated as part of admissions; there’s no separate intake process, and the cost is generally separate from the PHP/IOP clinical fee. The admissions team walks through how that works alongside the insurance verification conversation.

Insurance, admissions, and getting started from Pompano

RECO is in-network with most major commercial carriers — Aetna, Cigna, Blue Cross Blue Shield plans, and others — and works with out-of-network benefits for plans where that’s the better fit. The admissions team runs a no-cost benefits check before any clinical commitment, so a Pompano family knows up front what PHP or IOP will actually cost out of pocket.

The first step is a phone conversation. The intake clinician will ask about substance use history, prior treatment, any medical or psychiatric concerns, and the home environment. From that conversation, the team can usually recommend a level of care — PHP, IOP, sober living plus PHP — and confirm admission within 24 to 72 hours. For clients dealing with specific substances, the deeper-dive program pages on alcohol and opioid treatment cover the clinical specifics in more depth.

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