Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Programs - Dexter, IA.

The demand for drug and alcohol rehab facilities for pregnant and postpartum women is very high, with exceptional attention to opioid addicted 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 provided for pregnant and postpartum women in Dexter offer broad range of services, non-punitive in nature, to make abstinence from drugs and alcohol a reality, allow opioid addicted mothers and soon to be mothers transition into a drug free and healthy pregnancy with non-addicted infants, and get the recovery they need to stay abstinent while postpartum.

States which offer pregnant and postpartum mothers with treatment services alternatively to legal consequences, such as revocation of their parental rights, have found that these types of services sustain the idea of keeping the family as an unit and maintaining the mother's abstinence in place so that this positively enforces the welfare of the infants and other children involved. Services provided at such programs might include individual, group, and family counseling as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some treatment programs may even provide training in parenting and incorporate trauma-specific services to address any abusive relationships which stimulate their drug or alcohol abuse as well as emotional and sexual abuse for all family members.

Many women in this situation typically need comprehensive outpatient treatment services, but face many challenges to their sobriety due to the difficult nature of being a single parent. Substance abuse rehabilitation programs for pregnant and postpartum women often offer inpatient and residential care with beds for clients children, and aftercare services to sober living programs with continuing outpatient therapy services offered to them including healthcare services.

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