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Alcohol Treatment in
New Mexico
Zia Recovery Center in Las Cruces, NM, offers a highly personalized approach for treating alcohol use disorder and co-occurring mental health conditions in adults 18 and older. Our experienced clinical team, many of whom are also in recovery, maintains a high staff-to-client ratio. This ensures you receive dedicated time and attention every step of the way as you work toward sober living.
Whether you’re staying with us for 30, 90, or even 180 days across our outpatient and residential treatment programs, we want every last person to leave feeling healthy and stable. But more importantly, we want you to be a participant in that stability. We empower you to rebuild your physical health, secure employment, and even find housing. You can step into your future knowing that with the right amount of help and support, you’re capable of creating a beautiful life — maybe even the life you didn’t think was possible.
Environment at Zia Recovery Center
Healing requires a space where you feel genuinely safe, seen, and respected. Across our Las Cruces campuses — from our comfortable withdrawal management facility to the peaceful Brunson House residential center and our apartment-style IOP housing — we provide an “accessible luxury” experience.
You’ll enjoy chef-prepared meals, access to quiet outdoor spaces, and wellness amenities designed to regulate your nervous system and keep you feeling your best. Our community welcomes everyone because community is part of the care. We’ve created a non-judgmental atmosphere with people who get what you’re going through. It feels like a true home away from home, not the average alcohol rehab in Las Cruces.


How to Get Started
Taking the first step toward recovery can be challenging, but you don’t have to do it alone. Our admissions team is here to guide you through the process with compassion and understanding.
Reach Out to Us
Contact our admissions team via phone, email, or our online form.
Verify Insurance
We verify insurance benefits and determine the most appropriate level of care.
Personalized Plan
Together, we’ll develop a treatment plan tailored to your needs.
Why Choose Zia Recovery Center?
At Zia Recovery Center, we believe lasting recovery comes from personalized care, meaningful support, and a commitment to helping clients build healthy, fulfilling lives. Our full continuum of care, experienced team, and focus on long-term success set us apart as a trusted partner in recovery.
Personalized Treatment for Every Recovery Journey
Every client receives an individualized treatment plan that evolves with their needs, goals, and progress throughout care. We know that addiction looks differently in everyone, and it’s incredibly important to use what we know about your unique history to provide the right kind of treatment. It’s care that respects where you are while getting you where you need to go.
A Full Continuum of Addiction Treatment
Clients can seamlessly transition through withdrawal management, residential treatment, intensive outpatient, outpatient, and aftercare while remaining connected to the same trusted team. Having this complete spectrum of care under one roof means you never have to start over with new doctors or retell your story to strangers. We’re with you all the way.
Focused on Long-Term Life Stability
Our approach measures success through meaningful outcomes like stable housing, employment, improved mental health, and lasting recovery – not abstinence alone. Getting sober is just the beginning; we’ll equip you with the skills and resources that help you not only gain independence, but hold onto it tight, even when things get hard.
A Supportive Recovery Community
Clients benefit from a recovery environment where they can connect with peers at different stages of healing for encouragement, accountability, and hope. Healing in isolation is incredibly difficult, but when you surround yourself with people who genuinely understand your struggles, it creates a network of mutual support that lasts long after you leave our care.
Compassionate Team With Lived Experience
Many of our staff members are in recovery themselves, providing authentic support alongside evidence-based, trauma-informed care. We’ve walked this path. We know the kind of empathy required to walk alongside you. You deserve to feel heard, respected, and completely free from judgment as you share your experience — and that’s what you’ll get at Zia Recovery Center.
Comfortable, Boutique-Style Environment
Our peaceful campuses offer chef-prepared meals, wellness-focused amenities, and welcoming spaces designed to help clients focus on healing. We believe in providing “accessible luxury” because you deserve a dignified and restorative space where your physical comfort matches the high quality of your clinical care.
Highlights of Our SUD Treatment
You can’t build a path to sober living without the right tools. Our substance use disorder treatment gives you what you need to start and continue creating a better life, including personal support that puts your needs first.

Evidence-Based Therapeutic Modalities
Therapies like cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) are cornerstones of your treatment. They put the power back in your hands to rewire negative thought patterns and manage challenging emotions so you don’t have to turn to alcohol. A healthy mix of individual and group therapy will teach you coping mechanisms while showing you different ways to manage stress that don’t involve substances.
Dual Diagnosis
Support
Alcohol addiction is often connected or intertwined with untreated trauma, depression, anxiety, or other co-occurring disorders. We provide psychiatric support for these mental health challenges. This helps us understand the root causes of your pain, allowing our team to not just manage the symptoms of alcohol abuse.
Aftercare Program
Our Community Aftercare Program (CAP) provides ongoing peer support and social connections with the people who’ve helped you get where you are. Outpatient groups are held three times a week in two-hour-long sessions, and peer support services are available to enrolled members every weekday.
Relapse Prevention
We know that no matter how well you do during a program, life will challenge your sobriety in ways you can’t always predict. That’s why we work closely with you to learn about your personal triggers. We’ll use what we know to build an actionable plan. You’ll have what you need to protect yourself when faced with these stressors outside of our care.

Levels of Care in Our Alcohol Rehab
Recovery looks different at every stage. Our step-down model ensures you have the right kind of support as you reach each new level in your journey.
Withdrawal Management
Managing your mind and body during the withdrawal phase is the first step for everyone’s recovery, and one that’s made much easier with our withdrawal management. While not the same as medical detox or detoxification, you’ll still be in a safe environment to stabilize yourself from the immediate effects of alcohol cessation.
Residential Treatment
Following your stabilization, you’ll move into our Brunson House for 30 to 90 days of structured therapeutic support. This includes everything from chef-prepared meals to clinical care and even access to outdoor spaces where you can reclaim your peace and ground yourself after withdrawal management.
Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)
Our intensive outpatient program (IOP) is structured similarly to a traditional partial hospitalization program (PHP). It’s meant as a step-down program where clients live in our apartment-style recovery housing. You’ll attend intensive daily therapy, where you’ll gain the tools and confidence to move into the next phase of sober living.
Continuing Care Through Outpatient and Aftercare
An outpatient program (OP) is the final phase of your treatment journey. It’s where you’ll have complete independence without severing the strong connections you’ve made with our clinical team. You’ll have access to weekly group and individual sessions as a means of aftercare and accountability.
Take the First Step Toward Addiction Recovery
Speak with our admissions team today to learn more about the life waiting for you on the other side of taking your first brave step into healing.
What to Expect From Our Alcohol Rehab Program
Our alcohol rehab program isn’t staffed with healthcare professionals who treat you like another body in a bed. It’s a team of people who have been in your shoes, with 90% of the staff in recovery themselves. Together with their support, you’ll have days balanced around wellness activities and connecting with others. Each schedule is tailored to your specific needs and goals.
Our facility offers customized programs that care about the quality of your whole life, not just whether or not you’re drinking. We’ll help you prepare for whatever your next step is, whether you’re in withdrawal management or an outpatient rehab program.

What We Treat
We offer trauma-informed care for substance use disorders and the mental health challenges that often come with them.

Alcohol Addiction
Our alcohol rehab in New Mexico provides comprehensive support to safely break the physical and psychological cycles of alcohol dependency at every stage.
Alcohol is a normalized part of everyday life compared to other substances. This can make quitting feel overwhelming and frustrating. We provide medical oversight during withdrawal management, followed by therapeutic care to help you better understand why drinking is such a big part of your life. Together, this makes quitting drinking approachable, safe, and most importantly, doable.
Drug Addiction
For those dealing with opioid abuse or other substance use disorders, we have the same expert clinical care, behavioral health services, and comfortable environment waiting for you.
- Cocaine: We’ll use proven therapeutic modalities to help you manage cravings and identify triggers. This includes CBT and DBT. These are two powerful tools that help you recognize and manage high-stress situations.
- Opioids: Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) is available to help ease withdrawal symptoms for those struggling with opioid use. Opioid withdrawals can be extremely physically taxing. Our withdrawal management helps you work through them with support from FDA-approved medications.
- Marijuana: You’ll receive counseling to uncover what’s driving your dependency, like anxiety or depression symptoms, and find new, healthy ways to cope. We’ll explore why numbing out feels like the only option and help you find others.
- Heroin: Our facility is a secure and supportive environment for those ready to stop using and start rebuilding their lives. Overcoming heroin addiction takes immense courage and a highly structured support system, which is why we surround you with 24/7 medical oversight and clinical therapy.
Co-Occurring Mental Health Challenges
Substance use is often a self-medicating coping mechanism for co-occurring mental health challenges. We know that even if we remove the substance from your life, the underlying psychological pain doesn’t just go away. Our team addresses it head-on by treating you as a person, not just singling out your substance use or mental health challenges.
- Anxiety: We teach you that you don’t have to listen to or be afraid of your anxiety. You’ll learn grounding techniques to manage your feelings without turning to alcohol.
- Depression: Individual and group therapy can give you motivation and a new sense of self-worth. We’re here to show you that you can do hard things, especially when a beautiful life is on the other side.
- Bipolar Disorder: You’ll receive psychiatric support and routine-building tools to help keep your moods as stable as possible. We’ll also teach you how to ride mood swings and achieve emotional balance in a way that feels possible and sustainable.

Meet Our Team
Get to know our dedicated team of clinical experts and operational professionals committed to supporting each individual’s recovery journey.

When to Seek Alcohol Addiction Treatment
You may feel like your relationship with alcohol is fine. Maybe you only drink at night or can hold down a job. Other friends or family members might drink more or drink just as much as you: how bad could it be, really?
Alcohol and substance use disorder are dangerous – they can creep up on you over the course of months or even years, straining your relationships and affecting your physical health. Suddenly, drinking is the only way you know how to cope with stress. That’s when it’s time to reach out for support. Zia Recovery Center can help you figure out why you drink and how to stop, so you can start looking towards the stable and fulfilling reality of sober living.
Testimonials
from 45 Google reviews
I had the pleasure of working with Zia Recovery and I would definitely send a family member there for treatment. They truly care about recovery and helping people get back on their feet! I wouldn’t hesitate to call them and ask for support.
Andy L.
Zia Recovery Center is a great place if you are serious and diligent about changing your life for the better. The staff and programming are top notch. Nearly every employee and the owners are in recovery. They truly care for each and every client that comes through the doors. It was nice to be in a facility that has so many resources. By far the best program I’ve ever been apart of. Great job Zia and continue with the amazing work you do!
Caleb B.
ZRC has completely gone above and beyond during my first 40 days of recovery. All the staff members from the techs, therapist, case workers, chef, trainer, class facilitators, management team and staff i haven’t mentioned are very professional and helpful. Im looking forward to spending each day with them until I complete a successful recovery journey. Thank you Zia Recovery!
Bryan C.
Zia is a great program , they treat each client with respect and care and give you so much opportunity to grow and get your life and addiction issues in order. The new mattresses are really comfortable too 🙂 I am happy with my experience at Zia. It’s been profound and life changing.
Sylvia M.
FAQ
If you have a hard time controlling how much you drink, experience withdrawal symptoms (like shaking or sweating) when you stop, or prioritize drinking over other important things in your life, you could be struggling with an alcohol use disorder. Our team can assess and help you understand your relationship with alcohol.
Yes. We offer medication-assisted treatment (MAT) when clinically appropriate. Your treatment may include FDA-approved medications, including buprenorphine/Suboxone and naltrexone/Vivitrol. These medications help manage cravings so you can focus on therapy and recovery.
Yes. We proudly accept New Mexico Medicaid alongside many private insurance plans like Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, Cigna, United Healthcare, Humana, and many others.



