The Florida Recovery Center offers comprehensive treatment and assessment programs for persons with alcohol and drug abuse or dependence. Specially trained professionals from many disciplines comprise the treatment team headed by addiction specialists from the University of Florida College of Medicine.

To find out more about the Florida Recovery Center and services offered there, please listen to our online HealthCast.

Online Mental Health and Alcohol Awareness Screenings

Shands Vista is a partner in providing these confidential online screenings.

Strengths of the Florida Recovery Center

• Our affiliation with the University of Florida College of Medicine keeps us connected to cutting edge research.
• The size of our program gives us the ability to give our patients the personal attention they deserve.
• Our ability to deal with complex medical issues, including detoxification from multiple drugs and management of chronic pain.
• UF physicians, specializing in addiction medicine, direct our programs.
• Many of our staff members are in recovery and our staff is personally committed to the 12-step and spiritual approach to recovery.
• Board certified psychiatrists are on staff for consultation.

Guiding principles of the Florida recovery center

• Addiction is a brain disease.
• Addiction affects body, mind and spirit.
• Addiction damages the family unit.
• Consequences of addiction impact all relationships and the workplace.
• Shame and denial hinder recovery.
• Treatment works! The negative outcomes of addiction are amenable to intervention.

We believe that through multidisciplinary assessment, state-of-the-art treatment protocols, 12-step facilitation with cognitive behavioral therapies, and family therapy, we can help patients recover.

We offer inpatient and outpatient services for patients and their families. We are fully licensed and accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.

Information

For more detailed information about our programs and information for family members, please call 352.265.5497 or 888.391.7181.

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