Drug and Alcohol Rehab in Florence, SC

When you’re ready for help, distance matters but shouldn’t become a barrier. American Detox & Treatment Center in Chesnee offers medically supervised care about three hours northwest of Florence—close enough to maintain connections, far enough to create the space healing requires.

Florence sits at the intersection of Interstates 95 and 20 in South Carolina’s Pee Dee region, a community shaped by healthcare institutions, manufacturing, and families who’ve watched addiction touch their neighborhoods for years. If you’re searching for drug rehab Florence, because you need options from here, you face a choice many families in mid-sized Southern cities know well: local outpatient services that may not provide enough structure, or residential programs that require real distance.

American Detox & Treatment Center in Chesnee represents the latter—about 191 miles northwest via I-20 and I-26, roughly two hours and fifty minutes depending on traffic. That drive takes you from Florence’s flatlands into the foothills of the Blue Ridge, where the center’s campus offers both privacy and the clinical intensity that makes residential treatment work.

What makes the distance worthwhile is what happens when you arrive. The medical detox program at American Detox doesn’t stand alone; it flows directly into residential care on the same campus. No discharge into uncertainty, no transfer to another facility, no starting your story over with strangers. Just safe continuity during the most vulnerable days of early recovery.

What to Expect

Our Florence Treatment Program

Before you pack a bag or convince someone you love to get in the car, you deserve to know what happens inside. Our frequently asked questions about policies and daily life answer the practical concerns families actually have: Can I bring my phone? When can I talk to my family? What if I need medication I’m already taking? How do you handle emergencies?

The structure itself is deliberate. Medical supervision runs 24/7, which matters most during the first 72 hours when withdrawal symptoms peak. The 24-bed campus offers mostly private rooms: space to sleep when exhaustion hits, space to think when emotions surface. Therapy isn’t occasional; you’ll participate in up to 27 group hours each week and receive up to six individual sessions. If you’re a veteran or first responder, specialized trauma-informed tracks recognize that your stress exposure differs from civilian patterns.

The boundaries exist to protect the work: no in-person visitors during treatment, though family therapy happens via Zoom when your clinical team determines it’s time. A gym, basketball court, and outdoor areas on fenced grounds give you somewhere to go when sitting still in your own thoughts becomes unbearable. For the clinical framework (cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and EMDR), our overview of evidence-based therapies explains how those approaches address both immediate crisis and underlying patterns.

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Paying for Treatment

Affording Addiction Treatment in Florence

American Detox & Treatment Center works with major private insurers: Cigna, Optum/UnitedHealthcare, Ambetter, BCBS, UMR, and Instil Health. Our insurance verification process cuts through the confusion. You’ll learn what your plan covers and what you’ll owe out of pocket, usually within hours.

Two important limits: we do not accept Medicare or Medicaid, which closes this option for some Florence families. But if you’re a veteran family, we accept CHAMPVA benefits and can coordinate coverage with you. Cost is never the conversation anyone wants to have during a crisis, but knowing the number helps you make a real decision rather than a desperate guess.

Getting Started

Getting from Florence to Chesnee

Most families drive in together and complete admission the same day. The contact page at American Detox connects you with admissions staff who can walk you through timing and logistics; the physical address is 405 W Cherokee St., Chesnee, SC 29323. For those traveling alone or without reliable transportation, the team can coordinate local options, and UberHealth is utilized when appropriate to ensure safe arrivals.

If you’re trying to decide whether residential treatment at American Detox makes sense after detox, the program page outlines the daily structure and therapeutic approach. The center also serves other South Carolina communities, detailed on the areas served in South Carolina page.

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The Need For Florence Addiction Treatment

The statewide picture offers measured hope. According to the South Carolina Department of Public Health’s opioid epidemic data, in 2023, South Carolina recorded 2,157 drug overdose deaths, down 6.1 percent from 2022 and marking the first decrease since 2014. Progress, but still more than two thousand families who buried someone they loved.

Florence County carries disproportionate weight in those numbers. The Florence County drug use fact sheet shows that in 2021, the county reported 66 overdose deaths and ranked ninth highest statewide in overdose-death rate. Sixty-six isn’t a statistic; it’s people who coached Little League, worked third shift at the hospital, showed up to church suppers, raised children. The urgency isn’t manufactured. It’s measured in funerals that shouldn’t have happened yet.

Timely access to residential care doesn’t guarantee recovery, but it changes the odds. Distance from Florence to Chesnee isn’t trivial, but neither is another month of waiting for a bed closer to home or trying outpatient treatment when the environment itself keeps triggering relapse.

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If you’re ready to start (or if you’re making this decision for someone who can’t quite make it themselves yet), begin by verifying your insurance coverage to understand what your plan covers. Or reach out to American Detox directly to talk with admissions about detox, residential structure, and what the drive from Florence looks like in practical terms.

Recovery doesn’t begin with the decision to get help; it begins with the decision to ask the first real question. The team will meet you wherever you are in that process and walk you toward what comes next.

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