Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Melbourne, IA.

The demand for addiction rehabilitation programs for pregnant and postpartum women is very high, with special regards to opioid addicted 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 available to pregnant and postpartum women in Melbourne offer wide range of services, non-punitive in nature, to make getting clean from drugs and alcohol possible, allow opioid addicted mothers transition into a drug free and healthy pregnancy with non-addicted newborn children, and receive the treatment they need to remain clean and sober while postpartum.

States that offer pregnant and postpartum women with treatment services in lieu of legal consequences, including revocation of their parental rights, have found that these types of services sustain the idea of maintaining the family as an unit and maintaining the mother's abstinence and sobriety in place so that this positively enforces the well-being of the newborns and other children involved. Services delivered at these types of rehabilitation programs may involve group, individual, and family counseling as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some treatment programs may even offer education and training in parenting and incorporate trauma-specific services to address any 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 position often need extensive outpatient treatment services, but face many difficulties to their sobriety because of the complex nature of being a single parent or sole caregiver. Substance abuse rehab centers for pregnant and postpartum women sometimes provide inpatient and residential care with beds for clients children, and aftercare services to sober living programs with continuing outpatient treatment services offered to them including healthcare services.

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