Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - St. George Island, AK.

The need for substance abuse rehabilitation centers for pregnant and postpartum women is very high, with particular attention to opiate dependent pregnant and postpartum women since cases of neonatal abstinence syndrome have increased 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 St. George Island offer a comprehensive range of services, non-punitive in nature, to make abstinence from drugs and alcohol a reality, allow opioid addicted mothers transition into a drug free and healthy pregnancy with non-opioid dependent newborn children, and receive the treatment they need to stay abstinent during postpartum.

States which provide pregnant and postpartum women with rehab services alternatively to legal consequences, such as revocation of their parental rights, have found that these measures sustain the idea of keeping the family together and keeping the mother's abstinence in place so that this positively impact's the well-being of the newborns and other children involved. Services provided at these types of rehabilitation programs might include individual, group, and family therapy as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some programs may even provide training in parenthood and include trauma-specific services to address any abusive relationships which bring on their drug or alcohol abuse as well as sexual and emotional abuse for all family members.

Most women in this position usually require extensive outpatient treatment services, yet face many difficulties to their sobriety because of the complex nature of being a single parent or sole caregiver. drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs for pregnant and postpartum women often offer residential and inpatient treatment with beds for clients children, and transition services to sober living facilities with ongoing outpatient therapy services available to them including healthcare services.

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