Licensed medical detox for alcohol and drugs
Which medical detox admits Hollywood callers today?
Hollywood residents detox with us in Pompano Beach, at a licensed medical unit about 20 miles north of the city, and with a bed open you come in the same day you call.
Nurses work the unit every hour of the night, medication from your prescriber softens withdrawal, and your next stage of treatment begins the day detox wraps up.
Admissions picks up at any hour and checks your insurance during that first call.
How soon does medical detox start for Hollywood callers?
Today, when a bed is open. From most of Hollywood, you reach our door within about half an hour of hanging up.
Expect four questions from admissions: your substance, your daily amount, your last use and any health conditions. Then they run your coverage and give you an arrival time. Ask someone sober to drive. The quickest way up is the I-95 on-ramp at Hollywood Boulevard, exit 20, then north to Atlantic Boulevard. From Hollywood Beach, your driver heads west on Sheridan Street to reach I-95, about 21 miles in all. From the west side near Stirling Road, the trip runs about 18 miles.
Calling for someone else? Keep them beside you and pass them the phone when they are ready. One call covers both of you.
Can we admit you to detox from Memorial Regional?
Yes. If Memorial Regional Hospital or another Broward emergency room has treated you after drinking or using, call us from your bed and we line up detox before you leave.
Memorial Regional Hospital at 3501 Johnson Street runs a psychiatric emergency department that stays open 24 hours a day. The ER treats the crisis that brought you in. Detox comes next, and moving straight from the hospital into our care closes the gap where going home turns into going back.
Hand the discharge nurse our number, or call admissions yourself. We check your plan while you are still in the building.
Do you need medical detox for alcohol or drugs?
Yes, when you use every day, get sick on the days you stop, or your body depends on alcohol, benzodiazepines, fentanyl or another opioid.
Watch for these three:
- The first drink or dose of the morning is what makes your hands steady
- Missing a day leaves you sweating, aching, sick to your stomach or awake all night
- You have tried to quit before and the first few days won
Any one of them is enough to call. Mixing alcohol with pills or opioids makes the case for a team around you stronger still.
Which detox services do Hollywood callers get?
Same-Day Detox Admission
Call when a bed is free and admissions sets an arrival time before you hang up. A sober driver brings you up from Hollywood.
A Nurse With You at 3am
A nurse checks on you through the night, and your prescriber changes your medication as withdrawal shifts.
Withdrawal Plans by Substance
Coming off alcohol is not coming off fentanyl, heroin, pain pills or benzodiazepines, so your prescriber writes a plan for the one you use.
Detox Straight From the Hospital
Leaving Memorial Regional or another Broward ER? Call from your bed and we confirm your plan before discharge.
Next Treatment Booked During Detox
Before withdrawal is over, your case manager has rehab, PHP or IOP on the calendar, so no empty week waits for you in Hollywood.
Detox Coverage Checked by Phone
Supervised detox sits in most Broward benefit packages. Admissions checks your plan's detox benefit while you wait on the line.
How do you get to detox from Hollywood?
Driven to Detox From Hollywood
A sober friend takes Hollywood Boulevard to I-95 at exit 20 and heads north about 20 miles. The drive runs about 30 minutes outside rush hour.
Detox After a Memorial Regional Visit
From the emergency department on Johnson Street, you or the discharge nurse calls admissions before you leave the building.
Family Coming Down for Detox Day
Relatives on Brightline step off at Aventura or Fort Lauderdale, since the train skips Hollywood. Admissions plans the drive from there.
What happens in our medical detox?
On arrival a nurse records your history and your prescriber writes your withdrawal plan. After that, nurses visit your room on a fixed rota through the day and night.
Your room is quiet, with a proper bed, light food and fluids on hand all day. When symptoms climb, a nurse is already close by and your prescriber adjusts your medication, so you never ride it out alone.
Alcohol withdrawal calls for a benzodiazepine taper, with thiamine from your first day. Opioid withdrawal eases within hours on buprenorphine, which also quiets cravings. Coming off benzodiazepines means a gradual step-down your prescriber paces for you. For each taper in full, see alcohol detox and drug detox.
Is medical detox safe for you?
Yes. Nurses check you at set times, your prescriber shifts your medication as symptoms move, and nobody leaves you alone with withdrawal.
Alcohol and benzodiazepines need a medical taper, so your prescriber brings the dose down in steps instead of all at once. Opioid withdrawal aches, and buprenorphine takes the edge off within hours. Your prescriber sees you every morning and the nurses check in through the night, so the team catches changes early.
If you mix alcohol with pills, tell admissions on the first call. Your prescriber writes one plan that covers both.
How long does detox take for alcohol and opioids?
Plan on three to seven days if you are coming off alcohol and five to ten for most opioids. A benzodiazepine taper outlasts both.
Your own timeline depends on the substance, the amount and how long you have used it. Short-acting opioid withdrawal begins around 12 hours after the last dose, per MedlinePlus guidance on opioid withdrawal, and medication gets you through the roughest stretch.
Your prescriber sits down with you each morning to go over where you are in the count of days and what tomorrow brings.
Does insurance cover medical detox in Broward?
Yes. Supervised detox sits inside the benefits of most Broward plans, Florida Blue, Aetna and Cigna among them.
Insurers treat detox as medically necessary care. The stay is short, so admissions clears the benefits check and the authorization during the same day you phone, and paperwork never stands between you and a bed.
Detox for Every Hollywood Neighborhood
From Hollywood Beach, downtown or Stirling Road west of I-95, you come in at any hour a bed is open.
Licensed Medical Detox Staff
No plan goes ahead without a prescriber's signature, and no dose without a nurse's check.
Detox Into Treatment Without a Gap
Rehab, PHP or IOP starts the day withdrawal ends, run by the same team.
How much does detox cost for Hollywood callers?
Your bill is the unpaid part of your deductible plus coinsurance. Admissions turns that into a dollar figure on the first call.
The biggest swings come from what you have already put toward this year’s deductible and from whether your plan counts us in-network. Out of network, admissions gives you the gap in dollars. Uninsured? Admissions quotes self-pay for detox and every step that follows.
The phone call and the coverage check are free. Hollywood callers owe us nothing before they choose a date to come in.
Do you need rehab once detox ends?
You need both. Detox gets alcohol or drugs out of your body safely, and rehab then takes on the reasons you keep going back.
The week after detox is when relapse hits hardest if nothing follows it. Here, the same team carries you into whichever level comes next, whether that means living in at our rehab for Hollywood residents or weekdays in intensive outpatient or a partial hospitalization program. Your assessment, using the ASAM criteria, picks which one.
What happens the day your detox ends?
You walk into your next level of care that morning, with medication, a case manager and your family already briefed.
Discharge planning starts on day one. If home is not the right place yet, we arrange a certified sober home near your program. Once treatment ends, our alumni program holds your spot, and its evening groups fit after a workday in Hollywood.
If you work nights at the Seminole Hard Rock, behind the bar at the Guitar Hotel or in a beachfront kitchen, your case manager plans your first shift back with you while you are still in detox.
How do you get a family member into detox?
Call admissions anyway. Together we script the conversation, and when your loved one is in danger and still says no, Florida law opens a court route for your family.
Our intervention services team helps you rehearse what to say and holds a detox bed, so the moment your loved one agrees, they have somewhere to go.
The Marchman Act lets a judge order assessment and stabilization, which includes protective custody at a licensed detox. From Hollywood, you file in person at the Broward Clerk’s Mental Health Division, Room 03160 of the Central Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, not at the South Regional Courthouse in Hollywood. Admissions talks it through with you first.
Is our detox licensed and private?
Yes. You detox in a licensed medical unit, and HIPAA keeps everything you say inside your care team.
Your prescriber signs off on each withdrawal plan, and a nurse confirms every dose at your bedside. What reaches your employer is up to you, and your case manager files the leave paperwork if you need time away.
Heading in from the south, or from downtown Fort Lauderdale instead? Start with detox in Miami or detox in Fort Lauderdale.
Still weighing levels of care? Read outpatient rehab in Hollywood and dual diagnosis treatment in Hollywood.
How do you start detox from Hollywood today?
Call admissions now. We verify your insurance on the call and tell you what is covered, what is open this week and which program you qualify for. Need detox now? With a bed open, you arrive today.
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