For Executives, Addiction Recovery in the Lap of Luxury
Mr. Laird entered Silver Hill Hospital, a nationally known treatment center in New Canaan, Conn.
As the opioid crisis tightens its grip on the nation, an industry has sprung up to offer treatment centers for
executives like Mr. Laird who seek care in a discreet environment that allows them to continue working.
Caron Treatment Centers, which runs several recovery programs, has a property in Boca Raton, Fla., called Ocean Drive
that bills itself as “a discreet luxury rehab center for people of affluence and influence.” It costs $75,000 for the first month and $65,000 a month after that.
Barry Goldberg, 62, an executive from West Hartford, Conn., said
that when he finished his inpatient alcohol treatment at Mountainside in Canaan, Conn., last year, he was not ready to go back to his family and asked to stay at a sober-living house instead.
Dr. Ball said the new executive program at Silver Hill would be as rigorous as other programs at the hospital,
but with a greater emphasis on programs for individuals.
“I went to pick up these guys at Silver Hill, and the guy next to me, an accountant
from the Midwest, said he was worried about going home,” Mr. Laird said.
