Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Programs - Edinburg, TX.

The need for addiction treatment centers for pregnant and postpartum women is very high, with exceptional attention to opiate dependent pregnant and postpartum women because 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 Edinburg provide a comprehensive range of services, non-punitive in nature, to make getting clean from drugs and alcohol feasible, ensure opioid dependent mothers transition into a sober and healthy pregnancy with non-opioid dependent newborn children, and obtain the rehabilitation they need to stay sober while postpartum.

States which provide pregnant and postpartum women with rehab services alternatively to legal penalties, such as revocation of their parental rights, have found that these measures support the idea of keeping the family as an unit 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 offered at these types of rehabilitation programs may include group, individual, and family counseling as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some programs may even provide training in parenting and incorporate trauma-specific services to handle any abusive relationships which trigger their drug or alcohol abuse as well as emotional and sexual abuse for everyone in the family.

Many women in this situation typically need extensive outpatient treatment services, but face many challenges to their sobriety due to the complex nature of being a single parent or sole caregiver. Substance abuse rehabilitation facilities for pregnant and postpartum women sometimes offer inpatient and residential treatment with beds for clients children, and transition services to sober living facilities with continuing outpatient treatment services available to them including medical services.

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