Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - St. Joseph, IL.

The need for substance abuse rehabilitation programs for pregnant and postpartum women is very high, with particular attention to opiate dependent pregnant and postpartum women considering 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 provided for pregnant and postpartum women in St. Joseph offer broad spectrum of services, non-punitive in nature, to make getting off drugs and alcohol a reality, ensure opioid addicted mothers transition into a clean and healthy pregnancy with non-addicted newborn children, and obtain the treatment they need to remain 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 sustain the idea of maintaining the family as an unit and keeping the mother's abstinence 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 might involve individual, group, and family counseling as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some programs may even offer education in parenting and include trauma-specific services to address any type of abusive relationships which stimulate their drug or alcohol abuse as well as emotional and sexual abuse for everyone in the family.

Many women in this situation typically require extensive outpatient treatment services, yet face many difficulties to their sobriety due to the difficult nature of being a single parent. Substance abuse rehabilitation facilities for pregnant and postpartum women often offer residential and inpatient treatment with beds for clients children, and transition services to sober living programs with continuing outpatient therapy services offered to them including medical services.

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