Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - Mertens, TX.

The need for addiction rehabilitation centers for pregnant and postpartum women is very high, with particular 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. Programs provided for pregnant and postpartum women in Mertens offer a comprehensive spectrum of services, non-punitive in nature, to make getting clean from drugs and alcohol feasible, ensure opioid addicted mothers and soon to be mothers the transformation into a drug free and healthy pregnancy with non-addicted infants, and obtain the rehabilitation they need to stay sober while postpartum.

States which offer pregnant and postpartum mothers with treatment services rather than legal consequences, such as revocation of their parental rights, have found that these measures support the idea of keeping the family together and keeping the mother's abstinence in place so that this positively impact's the well-being of the newborns and other children involved. Services delivered at such programs might include group, individual, and family counseling as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some rehab centers may even provide education and training in parenthood and incorporate trauma-specific services to address any type of 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 typically require extensive outpatient treatment services, but face many difficulties to their sobriety because of the difficult nature of being a single parent or sole caregiver. Substance abuse treatment programs for pregnant and postpartum women sometimes provide inpatient and residential treatment with beds for clients children, and aftercare services to sober living facilities with ongoing outpatient therapy services available to them including healthcare services.

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