Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - Dougherty, IA.

The demand for substance abuse treatment centers for pregnant and postpartum women has never been greater, with exceptional regards to opiate dependent pregnant and postpartum women because 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. Programs available to pregnant and postpartum women in Dougherty provide wide spectrum of services, non-punitive in nature, to make getting clean from drugs and alcohol feasible, ensure opioid dependent mothers a passage into a drug free and healthy pregnancy with non-addicted newborn children, and receive the rehabilitation they need to stay abstinent while postpartum.

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

Many women in this situation normally require extensive outpatient treatment services, but face many challenges to their sobriety due to the complex nature of being a single parent or sole caregiver. Substance abuse rehabilitation programs for pregnant and postpartum women sometimes provide residential and inpatient treatment with beds for clients children, and aftercare services to sober living programs with ongoing outpatient treatment services offered to them including healthcare services.

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