Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - Merrill, WI.

The demand for addiction treatment programs for pregnant and postpartum women is very high, with special 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. Treatment centers provided for pregnant and postpartum women in Merrill offer broad spectrum of services, non-punitive in nature, to make getting off drugs and alcohol possible, allow opioid addicted mothers and soon to be mothers a passage into a drug free and healthy pregnancy with non-opioid dependent newborn children, and get the treatment they need to stay abstinent during postpartum.

States that offer pregnant and postpartum women with rehab services alternatively to legal consequences, including revocation of their parental rights, have found that these types of services sustain the idea of maintaining the family together and keeping the mother's abstinence in place so that this positively enforces the well-being of the infants and other children involved. Services provided at such programs may involve individual, group, and family therapy as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some treatment programs may even offer education and training in parenting and include trauma-specific services to work on any type of 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 situation usually need comprehensive outpatient treatment services, but face many challenges to their sobriety due to the difficult nature of being a single parent. Substance abuse rehab facilities for pregnant and postpartum women often offer inpatient and residential treatment with beds for clients children, and aftercare services to sober living facilities with ongoing outpatient treatment services offered to them including healthcare services.

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