Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Programs - Northway, AK.

The need for drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers for pregnant and postpartum women has never been greater, with special attention to opiate dependent pregnant and postpartum women because cases of neonatal abstinence syndrome have risen from 7 cases per 1,000 admissions to neonatal intensive care units in 2004 to 27 cases per 1,000 admissions in 2013. Programs available to pregnant and postpartum women in Northway provide wide spectrum of services, non-punitive in nature, to make getting clean from drugs and alcohol possible, ensure opioid dependent mothers and soon to be mothers the transformation into a clean and healthy pregnancy with non-opioid dependent infants, and get the recovery they need to stay sober during postpartum.

States that provide pregnant and postpartum women with treatment services rather than legal consequences, including revocation of their parental rights, have found that these types of services support the idea of maintaining the family as an unit and maintaining the mother's sobriety in place so that this positively enforces the well-being of the infants and other children involved. Services provided at these types of rehabilitation programs might involve individual, group, and family therapy as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some treatment programs may even provide education in parenthood and incorporate trauma-specific services to handle any abusive relationships which stimulate their substance abuse as well as sexual and emotional abuse for everyone in the family.

Many women in this situation often require extensive outpatient treatment services, yet face many challenges to their sobriety due to the difficult nature of being a single parent. Substance abuse rehab programs for pregnant and postpartum women sometimes offer residential and inpatient care with beds for clients children, and aftercare services to sober living facilities with ongoing outpatient therapy services offered to them including medical services.

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