Drug & alcohol rehab
serving Austin, Texas.
Downtown, South Congress, Zilker, East Austin, Round Rock, Cedar Park. Austin’s tech, music, and creative workforce travels to Pines Recovery Life for physician-led medical detox and residential care — far from the networks where substance use is culturally woven into work.
LegitScriptCertified
The culture made using easy.
Austin’s music, film, and creative industries are built around late nights, bars, festivals, and scenes. Tech and startup culture has its own ecosystem of high-pressure substance use. Recovery here often needs separation — and Austin is small enough that local treatment rarely provides it.
Austin’s creative and tech networks overlap at restaurants, venues, co-working spaces. Treatment 1,240 miles away creates the privacy the city can’t.
Co-occurring anxiety, ADHD, depression, bipolar, and PTSD are common across creative and tech populations. We treat them in parallel from day one.
SXSW, ACL, 6th Street, East Austin studios — recovery that holds needs distance from those environments for 30+ days minimum.
Direct flights AUS to FLL. Our admissions coordinates the full travel day.
Physician-directed, substance-specific.
Symptom-triggered taper; 24/7 seizure/DT prevention.
Supportive care; cardiac monitoring; psychiatric evaluation for ADHD, depression, anxiety.
FDA-approved MOUD: buprenorphine, methadone, naltrexone.
Long-acting benzodiazepine cross-taper.
For Adderall, Vyvanse, and related — careful tapering and psychiatric evaluation for underlying ADHD.
Layered protocols; psychiatric co-management.
BCBS Texas, tech employer plans, all verified.
Austin tech employers — Apple, Dell, Oracle, IBM, Tesla, Google (Austin), Meta, Amazon — carry major PPO carriers with strong behavioral health benefits. BCBS Texas, Aetna, and UHC dominate the region. Cigna is common through Austin creative and healthcare employers.
Many Austin tech plans also include generous out-of-network rehab benefits and mental health parity protection under ERISA.
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AUS Direct
JetBlue, Southwest, and Spirit fly AUS → FLL direct. About 3 hours.
Ground Transport
Sedan pickup at FLL (20 min to campus) or MIA (45 min).
Campus Intake
Full clinical and medical assessment — approximately one hour.
Treatment Begins
Medical detox or residential care begins same-day.
If you’re deciding tonight.
Crisis: call 988 or 911. Integral Care’s 24-Hour Crisis Helpline for Travis County: 512-472-4357.
Texas OSAR Region 7 covers Austin. SAMHSA Locator · Texas HHS
Physician-led, accredited, and built for unhurried care.
The choice of where to receive care for Austin families matters. Patients and families weigh credentials, environment, and continuity of care alongside cost and coverage. Here is what consistently brings people to our 18,000 sq ft private clinical campus in Pembroke Pines, Florida.
Medical Director Sergey Litvinov, MD — a board-certified psychiatrist — directs clinical care. Every patient is reviewed by an attending physician, not a counselor signing off on a protocol.
Independent accreditation by the nation’s most recognized healthcare standards body. Surveyed against rigorous safety and quality standards.
LegitScript certification is the standard required by Google, Microsoft, and Meta to advertise addiction treatment. It signals an audited, transparent operator.
Depression, anxiety, trauma, and ADHD frequently co-occur with substance use. Psychiatric assessment and care run in parallel with detox, not after.
Most commercial and military plans are accepted. Verification is free, confidential, and typically completed in under 60 seconds.
Private bedrooms, dedicated medical detox wing, therapy rooms sized for real clinical work, outdoor grounds. Not a strip-mall storefront.
Distance from Austin to Pembroke Pines, FL.
Austin sits 1,200+ flight miles east of our private clinical campus at 1151 Poinciana Dr. in Pembroke Pines, Florida. Austin–bergstrom international (aus) offers direct flights to fll — the typical trip runs approximately a 2-hour, 45-minute flight depending on traffic and time of day.
AUS to FLL. Spirit and JetBlue serve the AUS→FLL route. Our admissions team coordinates ground transportation from any airport or address at no cost once admission is authorized.
Most Austin families schedule a private campus tour before admission, either in person or via the immersive 360° virtual tour. Visitation weekends are coordinated with the clinical schedule, and family therapy can be conducted in person or by HIPAA-compliant telehealth so distance does not interrupt clinical work.
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BCBS Texas, Aetna, UHC, Cigna, Tricare, and Humana Military — all accepted.
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