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

The need for substance abuse treatment programs for pregnant and postpartum women is very high, with exceptional attention to opioid addicted 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. Rehab facilities available to pregnant and postpartum women in Shepherd provide a comprehensive range of services, non-punitive in nature, to make getting off drugs and alcohol feasible, ensure opioid dependent mothers and soon to be mothers transition into a clean and healthy pregnancy with non-addicted infants, and receive the recovery they need to remain clean and sober while postpartum.

States that provide pregnant and postpartum mothers with rehab services alternatively to legal consequences, including revocation of their parental rights, have found that these types of services support the idea of keeping the family as an unit and keeping the mother's abstinence and sobriety in place so that this positively impact's the welfare of the newborns and other children involved. Services provided at these types of programs may involve individual, group, and family therapy as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some treatment programs may even offer training in parenting and include trauma-specific services to address any abusive relationships which bring on their drug or alcohol abuse as well as sexual and emotional abuse for everyone in the family.

Most women in this position normally require comprehensive outpatient treatment services, yet face many difficulties to their sobriety due to the difficult nature of being a single parent. Substance abuse rehabilitation facilities for pregnant and postpartum women often provide inpatient and residential care with beds for clients children, and aftercare services to sober living facilities with continuing outpatient therapy services offered to them including medical services.

For All Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facilities In Shepherd, Click Here.