An independent guide to getting help

Delray Recovery is a plain-language guide to addiction treatment in Florida. It exists because the moment someone decides to get help, for themselves or for someone they love, is usually the moment they know the least about how treatment works, and Florida's treatment market has not always rewarded that trust.

What this site is, and isn't

This is not a rehab, a detox, a sober home, or a referral service. There's no admissions line, no one here will call you back, and no program pays us to send people its way. The phone numbers on this site go to national public services: 988 for crisis support and the SAMHSA National Helpline for treatment referrals.

What we cover

The guides are organized the way decisions usually unfold:

• Conditions: how treatment differs for alcohol, opioids and fentanyl, benzodiazepines, stimulants, and co-occurring mental health conditions
• Levels of care: detox, residential, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, and outpatient, and how people move between them
• Florida: the Marchman Act, provider licensing, sober home certification, and the patient brokering laws that protect consumers

The journal carries longer essays on recovery, therapy, and mental health.

How the guides are written

We lean on primary sources: federal agencies such as SAMHSA, NIDA, and NIAAA; clinical guidance from the American Society of Addiction Medicine; FDA labeling; and the Florida Statutes. Where evidence is thin or the law is in flux, the guides say so. Each one shows the date it was last updated.

Not medical or legal advice

Nothing here replaces an assessment by a licensed clinician or advice from an attorney. If you or someone near you is in immediate danger, call 911. For a mental health or substance use crisis, call or text 988. To find treatment, call SAMHSA at 1-800-662-4357, free and confidential, any time.