Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Programs - Waterbury Center, VT.

The need for drug and alcohol treatment facilities for pregnant and postpartum women is very high, with particular 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 Waterbury Center provide wide spectrum of services, non-punitive in nature, to make getting clean from drugs and alcohol a reality, ensure opioid addicted mothers and soon to be mothers the transformation into a drug free and healthy pregnancy with non-opioid dependent newborn children, and receive the recovery they need to stay sober during postpartum.

States that offer pregnant and postpartum mothers with treatment services alternatively to legal consequences, including revocation of their parental rights, have found that these measures sustain the idea of maintaining the family as an unit and maintaining the mother's sobriety in place so that this positively enforces the welfare of the newborns and other children involved. Services offered at such rehabilitation programs may include group, individual, and family therapy as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some programs may even offer training in parenting and incorporate trauma-specific services to work on any type of abusive relationships which stimulate their substance abuse as well as sexual and emotional abuse for all family members.

Many women in this position often need extensive outpatient treatment services, yet face many challenges to their sobriety due to the complex nature of being a single parent. Substance abuse rehabilitation programs for pregnant and postpartum women sometimes provide 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 healthcare services.

For All Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facilities In Waterbury Center, Click Here.