Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facilities - St. Joseph, LA.

The demand for addiction rehabilitation programs for pregnant and postpartum women has never been greater, with special regards to opiate addicted 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 provided for pregnant and postpartum women in St. Joseph provide broad spectrum of services, non-punitive in nature, to make getting clean from drugs and alcohol possible, allow opioid addicted mothers and soon to be mothers the transformation into a clean and healthy pregnancy with non-addicted newborn children, and obtain the recovery they need to remain abstinent while postpartum.

States which provide pregnant and postpartum women with rehab services rather than legal consequences, including revocation of their parental rights, have found that these measures sustain the idea of keeping 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 these types of rehabilitation programs may include individual, group, and family therapy as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some treatment programs may even provide education and training in parenthood and include trauma-specific services to address any abusive relationships which stimulate their drug or alcohol abuse as well as sexual and emotional abuse for everyone in the family.

Most women in this situation normally need comprehensive 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 treatment centers for pregnant and postpartum women often provide inpatient and residential treatment with beds for clients children, and transition services to sober living facilities with continuing outpatient treatment services offered to them including medical services.

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