Why Choose the Florida Recovery Center?

Recovering physicians and staff at the Florida Recovery Center understand the addict and the alcoholic because of first-hand experience. University of Florida researchers and physicians practice the bench-to-bedside philosophy by implementing the latest discoveries in the field of addiction medicine.

• Led by renowned University of Florida addiction specialist Scott Teitelbaum, M.D., F.A.A.P., F.A.S.A.M, our program ranks among the best addiction treatment centers in the country.
• Our partnership with the University of Florida College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry keeps us connected to leading-edge research and allows for consults and treatment of dual diagnoses.
• UF physicians specializing in addiction medicine direct our programs.
• Specialized recovery groups focus on the unique needs of healthcare and business professionals.
• Physicians are involved and oversee partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs.
• Patients receive personalized attention due to the size of our program.
• Our multidisciplinary team treats complex medical issues, including detoxification from multiple drugs and management of chronic pain.
• Our staff is personally committed to the 12-step and spiritual approach to recovery.
• We have a strong professional recovery community.
• Our affiliation with the University of Florida College of Medicine and the McKnight Brain Institute gives us the ability to do more addiction and translational research than other addiction programs or recovery centers in Florida.
• We have the largest training program for addiction medicine specialists, including the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) and the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP), in the nation.
• UF physicians and staff at the Florida Recovery Center have the unique ability to deal with complex medical issues, including acute addiction episodes, detoxification from multiple drugs, management of chronic pain and co-occurring disorders such as addiction combined with depression.
• Addiction is a brain disorder and a biopsychosocial disease, and UF physicians and staff at the Florida Recovery Center work closely with faculty in the leaders at the UF Department of Psychiatry and the McKnight Brain Institute to treat all addictions.