Published August 11, 2021 · Reviewed by Sergey Litvinov, MD · ~639 words

You have probably been told to get help close to home. For a lot of people from Massachusetts, home is where the drinking or the using keeps starting again. Addiction treatment for Massachusetts residents does not have to be close to home. What you need is a place with people who know how to get you through withdrawal safely, and where you feel safe enough to stay. Call Pines Recovery Life and we will go through your options with you.

Should you get addiction treatment in Boston?

Massachusetts has plenty of treatment centers, and there is still a real case for leaving the area. South Florida is one of the places people from Massachusetts go. A few of the reasons:

• You get to focus on yourself. Nothing at home is pulling at your attention.
• You’re less likely to walk out. Close to home, leaving takes one phone call. Further away it takes planning, and that pause is often enough to change your mind.
• The care is built around what you need, and it is easier to be honest with people who do not know anyone in your life.
• You get privacy. The hardest part of recovery is usually facing the stress and the trauma underneath it, and that is easier when nobody is watching.
• Wellness programs give your body a chance to heal along with everything else.

What should you look for in an addiction recovery program?

Stepping away from home helps, but only if you land somewhere that can actually treat you. For anyone with a serious addiction, that means a center able to handle everything you walk in with.

Start with a place that can take you the whole way, detox first and then residential treatment. Healing takes time, and you should not have to start over with a new team once the detox part is done.

Ask whether the detox is medically supervised, so a medical emergency is handled on the spot. Ask what else they have. Wellness programs and other support matter once the worst of the withdrawal is over.

At Pines Recovery Life we treat addiction alongside the trauma and the mental health conditions that come with it. Once the acute days are behind you, the work turns to what you want your life to look like.

Our programs:

• Men’s detox program
• Women’s detox program
• Medication-assisted treatment (MAT)
• Wellness programs and treatments
• Medical detox center

Find the right treatment with Pines Recovery Life

If the right place for you is out of state, that is allowed. Pines Recovery Life takes patients from across the country. The care is physician-led, and the same team carries you from detox into residential treatment. To ask what that would look like for you, reach out to us online or call 800.263.3869.