Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Programs - Iowa City, IA.

The demand for addiction rehab programs for pregnant and postpartum women has never been greater, with exceptional regards to opiate 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. Rehab facilities offered to pregnant and postpartum women in Iowa City provide a comprehensive spectrum of services, non-punitive in nature, to make abstinence from drugs and alcohol feasible, ensure opioid dependent mothers the transformation into a drug free and healthy pregnancy with non-opioid dependent infants, and get the rehabilitation they need to stay clean and sober while 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 keeping the family together and keeping the mother's sobriety in place so that this positively impact's the well-being of the infants and other children involved. Services offered at such rehabilitation programs may include group, individual, and family counseling as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some treatment programs may even offer education and training in parenthood and incorporate trauma-specific services to work on any type of abusive relationships which bring on their substance abuse as well as emotional and sexual abuse for everyone in the family.

Most women in this situation usually need extensive outpatient treatment services, but face many difficulties 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 inpatient and residential care 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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