Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facilities - Pilot Station, AK.

The demand for addiction treatment facilities for pregnant and postpartum women is very high, with exceptional regards to opioid 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. Treatment centers offered to pregnant and postpartum women in Pilot Station provide wide spectrum of services, non-punitive in nature, to make getting off drugs and alcohol possible, allow opioid addicted mothers and soon to be mothers a passage into a sober and healthy pregnancy with non-opioid dependent newborn children, and get the recovery they need to stay clean and sober during postpartum.

States which offer pregnant and postpartum women with treatment services alternatively to legal consequences, such as revocation of their parental rights, have found that these measures sustain the idea of keeping the family as an unit and maintaining the mother's abstinence in place so that this positively impact's the well-being of the infants and other children involved. Services delivered at these types of programs may involve individual, group, and family therapy as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some treatment programs may even provide training in parenting and include trauma-specific services to address any abusive relationships which stimulate their substance abuse as well as emotional and sexual abuse for everyone in the family.

Most women in this situation normally need extensive outpatient treatment services, but face many challenges to their sobriety due to the difficult nature of being a single parent or sole caregiver. Substance abuse treatment programs for pregnant and postpartum women often provide residential and inpatient treatment with beds for clients children, and transition services to sober living facilities with continuing outpatient therapy services offered to them including medical services.

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