Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Centers - Dorchester, MA.

The need for substance abuse rehab centers for pregnant and postpartum women is very high, with exceptional regards to opioid dependent pregnant and postpartum women considering 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. Treatment centers available to pregnant and postpartum women in Dorchester provide broad spectrum of services, non-punitive in nature, to make getting off drugs and alcohol feasible, ensure opioid dependent mothers and soon to be mothers a passage into a drug free and healthy pregnancy with non-opioid dependent newborn children, and receive the treatment they need to stay abstinent while postpartum.

States that offer pregnant and postpartum women with treatment services rather than legal penalties, including revocation of their parental rights, have found that these types of services sustain the idea of keeping the family together and maintaining the mother's abstinence and sobriety in place so that this positively impact's the well-being of the newborns and other children involved. Services provided at these types of programs may involve group, individual, and family counseling as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some treatment programs may even provide education in parenthood and incorporate trauma-specific services to address any abusive relationships which trigger their drug or alcohol abuse as well as sexual and emotional abuse for all family members.

Many women in this situation normally need extensive outpatient treatment services, yet face many difficulties to their sobriety due to the difficult nature of being a single parent or sole caregiver. drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs for pregnant and postpartum women sometimes offer inpatient and residential care with beds for clients children, and transition services to sober living facilities with continuing outpatient therapy services available to them including medical services.

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