For Executives, Addiction Recovery in the Lap of Luxury<br />Mr. Laird entered Silver Hill Hospital, a nationally known treatment center in New Canaan, Conn.<br />As the opioid crisis tightens its grip on the nation, an industry has sprung up to offer treatment centers for<br />executives like Mr. Laird who seek care in a discreet environment that allows them to continue working.<br />Caron Treatment Centers, which runs several recovery programs, has a property in Boca Raton, Fla., called Ocean Drive<br />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.<br />Barry Goldberg, 62, an executive from West Hartford, Conn., said<br />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.<br />Dr. Ball said the new executive program at Silver Hill would be as rigorous as other programs at the hospital,<br />but with a greater emphasis on programs for individuals.<br />“I went to pick up these guys at Silver Hill, and the guy next to me, an accountant<br />from the Midwest, said he was worried about going home,” Mr. Laird said.
