Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Programs - St. Anthony, ND.

The need for drug and alcohol treatment programs for pregnant and postpartum women is very high, with exceptional attention 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. Rehab facilities offered to pregnant and postpartum women in St. Anthony offer a comprehensive range 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 drug free and healthy pregnancy with non-opioid dependent newborn children, and get the treatment they need to stay abstinent while postpartum.

States that provide pregnant and postpartum mothers with rehab services alternatively to legal penalties, 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 sobriety in place so that this positively enforces the well-being of the infants and other children involved. Services provided at such rehabilitation programs might involve group, individual, and family counseling as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some programs may even provide training in parenting and include trauma-specific services to work on any type of abusive relationships which stimulate their substance abuse as well as emotional and sexual abuse for everyone in the family.

Most women in this situation often need extensive outpatient treatment services, but face many difficulties to their sobriety due to the complex nature of being a single parent or sole caregiver. Substance abuse rehab centers for pregnant and postpartum women sometimes offer inpatient and residential care 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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