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Recovery First accepts many insurances to help cover the costs of addiction treatment. If Recovery First is in-network with the company that carries your insurance policy, at least some of your treatment costs will be covered.
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About Recovery First Treatment Center
Set in Hollywood on Florida’s east coast, Recovery First Treatment Center offers residential care for drug/alcohol dependence and addiction and treatment for co-occurring disorders. Their adult treatment programs feature evidence-based methods like cognitive behavioral therapy, medication-assisted treatment (MAT), and family therapy. Recovery First Treatment Center also incorporates holistic methods into treatment, including art therapy and mindfulness-based activities.
Recovery First’s professional staff treats clients with co-occurring disorders like anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Recovery First’s comprehensive treatment approach encompasses evidence-based and holistic/alternative therapies, as well as mutual help groups like 12-Step programs and SMART Recovery.
Notably, Recovery First Treatment Center provides specialized treatment tracks for Veterans, first responders, and impaired professionals. These tracks focus on issues unique to each profession and are designed to address PTSD, grief and loss, work-life balance, and chronic stress. Re-entry support helps all clients transition back into life outside treatment, either through step-down continuing care or group aftercare options. Recovery First also offers specialized therapy for those dealing with sexual and domestic trauma.
Recovery First Treatment Center is in downtown Hollywood, Florida, and provides a 28-bed apartment-style facility for clients. Clients can enjoy local excursions, an on-site fitness center, a game room, and plenty of recreational activities during their stay. Recovery First Treatment Center is Joint Commission accredited and accepts many health insurance plans.
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Provider's Policy:Recovery First accepts many insurances to help cover the costs of addiction treatment. If Recovery First is in-network with the company that carries your insurance policy, at least some of your treatment costs will be covered.
Recovery First recognizes that addiction and mental health disorders can often coincide and believes treating both is necessary for recovery. They have the knowledge and experience to treat conditions like trauma, PTSD, bipolar disorder, depression, and other disorders commonly present with addiction. With this care, clients can receive the integrated care they need to fully recover.
Recovery First offers medical detox with 24/7 nursing care to help patients overcome drug or alcohol dependence in safety and comfort. Medications may be provided to alleviate pain, prevent complications, and ease cravings. Medications are only prescribed as needed, deemed necessary by Recovery First’s clinical staff.
Healthcare professionals can experience unique stressors and circumstances in their line of work. Recovery First tailors a treatment track to meet the needs of doctors, nurses, pharmacists, counselors, and others in the healthcare field. They seek to help clients manage stress, work-life balance, and help them return to work, or find a job better suited to their recovery needs.
Recovery First offers recreational amenities, like a game room with a TV, board games, ping pong tables, and more. They also provide therapeutic excursions. Their bed size of 28 gives their facility a close, community-style feel. Each apartment-style suite includes a small kitchen and a bathroom shared between two clients. Common areas allow clients to mingle and socialize outside treatment.
Emerging adults ages 18-25 receive treatment catered to the unique challenges of early adulthood, like college, risky behaviors, and vocational struggles.
Men and women attend treatment for addiction in a co-ed setting, going to therapy groups together to share experiences, struggles, and successes.
For adults ages 40+, treatment shifts to focus on the unique challenges, blocks, and risk factors of their age group, and unites peers in a similar community.
Patients who completed active military duty receive specialized treatment focused on trauma, grief, loss, and finding a new work-life balance.
This center treats primary substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions. Your treatment plan addresses each condition at once with personalized, compassionate care for comprehensive healing.
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
A person with multiple mental health diagnoses, such as addiction and depression, has co-occurring disorders also called dual diagnosis.
Cocaine is a stimulant with euphoric effects. Agitation, muscle ticks, psychosis, and heart issues are common symptoms of cocaine abuse.
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
Opioids produce pain-relief and euphoria, which can lead to addiction. This class of drugs includes prescribed medication and the illegal drug heroin.
Spirituality connects patients to a higher power and helps strengthen their recovery, hope, and compliance with other treatment modalities.
A combination of scientifically rooted therapies and treatments make up evidence-based care, defined by their measured and proven results.
Individual care meets the needs of each patient, using personalized treatment to provide them the most relevant care and greatest chance of success.
The specific needs, histories, and conditions of individual patients receive personalized, highly relevant care throughout their recovery journey.
Incorporating spirituality, community, and responsibility, 12-Step philosophies prioritize the guidance of a Higher Power and a continuation of 12-Step practices.
Patient and therapist meet 1-on-1 to work through difficult emotions and behavioral challenges in a personal, private setting.
A practiced state of mind that brings patients to the present. It allows them to become fully aware of themselves, their feelings, and the present moment.
This form of talk therapy addresses any childhood trauma at the root of a patient's current diagnosis.
This ancient practice can be mental, emotional, and even spiritual. In meditation, you focus your attention on the present moment without judgement.
Visual art invites patients to examine the emotions within their work, focusing on the process of creativity and its gentle therapeutic power.
Family therapy addresses group dynamics within a family system, with a focus on improving communication and interrupting unhealthy relationship patterns.
Teaching life skills like cooking, cleaning, clear communication, and even basic math provides a strong foundation for continued recovery.
Combined with behavioral therapy, prescribed medications can enhance treatment by relieving withdrawal symptoms and focus patients on their recovery.
This approach is based on idea that motivation to change comes from within. Providers use a conversational framework that may help you commit to recovery.
Although anger itself isn't a disorder, it can get out of hand. If this feeling interferes with your relationships and daily functioning, treatment can help.
Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.
This mental health condition is characterized by extreme mood swings between depression, mania, and remission.
Symptoms of depression may include fatigue, a sense of numbness, and loss of interest in activities. This condition can range from mild to severe.
OCD is characterized by intrusive and distressing thoughts that drive repetitive behaviors. This pattern disrupts daily life and relationships.
PTSD is a long-term mental health issue caused by a disturbing event or events. Symptoms include anxiety, dissociation, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts.
Stress is a natural reaction to challenges, and it can even help you adapt. However, chronic stress can cause physical and mental health issues.
Some traumatic events are so disturbing that they cause long-term mental health problems. Those ongoing issues can also be referred to as "trauma."
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
Benzodiazepines are prescribed to treat anxiety and sleep issues. They are highly habit forming, and their abuse can cause mood changes and poor judgement.
Consistent relapse occurs repeatedly, after partial recovery from addiction. This condition requires long-term treatment.
A person with multiple mental health diagnoses, such as addiction and depression, has co-occurring disorders also called dual diagnosis.
Cocaine is a stimulant with euphoric effects. Agitation, muscle ticks, psychosis, and heart issues are common symptoms of cocaine abuse.
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
Ecstasy is a stimulant that causes intense euphoria and heightened awareness. Abuse of this drug can trigger depression, insomnia, and memory problems.
Heroin is a highly addictive and illegal opioid. It can cause insomnia, collapsed veins, heart issues, and additional mental health issues.
Hallucinogenic drugs—like LSD—cause euphoria and increased sensory experiences. When abused, they can lead to depression and psychosis.
Methamphetamine, or meth, increases energy, agitation, and paranoia. Long-term use can result in severe physical and mental health issues.
Paramedics, police officers, firefighters, and others join in a specific First Responders program, usually focused on trauma, grief, and work-life balance.
Denise O' Connell
CEO
LMHC, Master's in Counseling Psychology
Dr. Richard Seely
Medical Director
MD
Charles Smith
Addictionologist
Doctorate in Osteopathic Medicine
Anthony Davis
Program Supervisor
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