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

The need for substance abuse treatment programs for pregnant and postpartum women is very high, with special regards to opiate dependent pregnant and postpartum women since 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 offered to pregnant and postpartum women in Sheffield provide broad spectrum of services, non-punitive in nature, to make getting off drugs and alcohol possible, allow opioid dependent mothers and soon to be mothers a passage into a sober and healthy pregnancy with non-addicted newborn children, and receive the rehabilitation they need to stay clean and sober while postpartum.

States which offer pregnant and postpartum women with treatment services in lieu of legal consequences, including revocation of their parental rights, have found that these measures support the idea of maintaining the family together and keeping the mother's abstinence and sobriety in place so that this positively enforces the well-being of the infants and other children involved. Services provided at such rehabilitation programs may involve group, individual, and family therapy as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some rehab centers may even offer education and training in parenting and incorporate trauma-specific services to handle any abusive relationships which bring on their substance abuse as well as emotional and sexual abuse for everyone in the family.

Many women in this position usually need extensive outpatient treatment services, yet face many challenges to their sobriety because of the complex nature of being a single parent. Substance abuse 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 continuing outpatient treatment services offered to them including healthcare services.

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