Programs & Levels of Care
Longview Behavioral Health will provide two levels of care in one Kingston building, medical detox and residential treatment, with dual diagnosis support running through both. Here's how they fit together and how to tell which one you need.
Detox to residential is a hallway, not a transfer.
The most dangerous moment in addiction treatment is the gap between levels of care: a person finishes detox at one facility, waits days for a bed somewhere else, and the window closes. At Longview the handoff from detox to residential will be a hallway. Same building, same team, in the most fragile week of the process.
- Detox (ATS) and residential care (CSS) will run in one building, with no transfer, no ride home, and no second intake between them.
- Groups and individual sessions will be run by licensed clinicians, with a psychiatric prescriber on the treatment team.
- Discharge planning connects you to outpatient care, prescribers, and recovery supports near home. You leave with appointments made, not suggestions.
Medical Detox in Massachusetts
Medical detox means round-the-clock care while your body clears drugs or alcohol. Our nurses and doctors manage withdrawal symptoms as they come, which makes detox in Massachusetts safer and a lot more bearable than toughing it out at home.
Learn moreResidential Treatment Program
Inpatient rehab in Massachusetts means living at the facility while you do the real work of recovery. At Longview in Kingston, that's structured days, licensed therapists, and a break from everything that kept the addiction running.
Learn moreDual Diagnosis Treatment
Dual diagnosis treatment in Massachusetts means treating addiction and the mental health condition underneath it at the same time. At Longview, one team works both, under one roof in Kingston.
Learn moreWhich level of rehab do you need?
A rough guide, with the caveat that a fifteen-minute assessment call answers it properly.
Your body reacts when you stop
Shaking, sweating, panic, or sickness when you try to quit means detox comes first. For alcohol or benzodiazepines, that is a medical necessity rather than a comfort choice.
You can stop, but can't stay stopped
If quitting doesn’t make you physically sick but nothing sticks, residential treatment is usually the right entry point.
Mental health is tangled up in it
Anxiety, depression, PTSD, or bipolar disorder alongside the substance use calls for dual diagnosis care, because treating half the problem is how people end up doing this twice.
Why choose Longview among rehabs in Massachusetts
Longview is Rockland Recovery Group’s first inpatient campus: 63 beds on 23 acres of the former Sacred Heart property in Kingston, ten minutes from Plymouth. The property matters more than it sounds. Treatment happens in groups and sessions, and recovery needs room to breathe between them.
The team is not new to this work. Rockland Recovery Group has treated addiction and mental health conditions on the South Shore since 2017, and its facilities now run from Kingston to Bedford, with Braintree, Quincy, and Sharon in between. The clinicians who built those programs designed this one, and the network behind them is where step-down care continues after discharge.
For South Shore and Plymouth County families searching rehab centers in Massachusetts, that combination, a serious campus close to home with a statewide network behind it, is what has been missing. Family therapy works when family can show up. Here, they can.
How the program runs
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Medical detox (ATS)
Round-the-clock nursing and physician oversight while your body clears the substance. Usually 3 to 7 days, longer for benzodiazepines.
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Residential treatment (CSS)
Living at the facility while therapy does the real work: groups, individual sessions, and psychiatric care. Often 2 to 4 weeks, set by progress and authorization.
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Discharge with a plan
Outpatient care, PHP and IOP referrals, prescribers, and recovery supports near home, including the Rockland Recovery Group network.
Call (781) 430-4090 and an admissions coordinator will help you figure out where to start.
Massachusetts levels of care, translated
Massachusetts has its own vocabulary for addiction treatment, and hearing it for the first time in a crisis is no fun. ATS, or Acute Treatment Services, is the state’s term for medical detox: round-the-clock nursing while your body clears drugs or alcohol. CSS, Clinical Stabilization Services, is the residential level that follows: living at the facility while therapy does the real work. When a hospital discharge planner or insurance case manager uses those acronyms, this page is what they mean, and we explain each in depth on our ATS detox and CSS pages.
Detox by substance
Withdrawal runs differently by substance, and the medical protocol follows. Each page covers the timeline, the medications involved, and when detox is a medical necessity rather than a comfort choice.
Choosing a program
What's the difference between detox and rehab?
Detox is the medical phase, clearing your system safely under supervision, and it typically runs several days to a week. Rehab, in the residential sense, is the treatment phase that follows: weeks of structured therapy addressing why the substance use happened. Detox without rehab has poor odds. Most people at Longview do both, back to back, in the same building.
How long does the full program take?
Typically several days to a week of detox, then often 2 to 4 weeks of residential care, adjusted to your progress and coverage. The honest answer arrives after assessment, and your treatment team updates it weekly with you rather than handing you a fixed date on day one.
Can I skip detox and go straight to residential?
If you don’t need medical detox, yes, and the assessment sorts that out. People come to residential directly after a detox elsewhere, after a hospital stay, or when their substance use doesn’t produce dangerous withdrawal. What we won’t do is skip detox for someone whose withdrawal carries seizure risk. That’s a medical line, not a preference.
Do you offer outpatient or PHP/IOP programs?
Our Kingston programs will run detox through residential care. For step-down care after discharge, we will connect you with outpatient programs including those in the Rockland Recovery Group family, with appointments arranged before you leave.
We will accept most insurance plans
We expect to work with most major insurers so you can focus on getting better, not on paperwork. Verify your benefits today. It only takes a minute and it's completely confidential.
Take the first step today.
Confidential and no pressure. Tell us a little about yourself and a caring admissions specialist will reach out — usually the same day.
Call 781.430.4090