Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Merton, WI.

The need for substance abuse treatment programs for pregnant and postpartum women is very high, with particular regards 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 Merton provide broad range of services, non-punitive in nature, to make abstinence from drugs and alcohol possible, ensure opioid addicted mothers and soon to be mothers a passage into a sober 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 treatment services alternatively to legal consequences, such as revocation of their parental rights, have found that these measures sustain the idea of keeping the family together and keeping the mother's sobriety in place so that this positively enforces the welfare of the newborns and other children involved. Services delivered at these types of programs may involve group, individual, and family counseling as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some treatment programs may even provide education and training in parenthood and include trauma-specific services to handle any type of abusive relationships which stimulate their substance abuse as well as emotional and sexual abuse for all family members.

Many women in this situation normally need extensive outpatient treatment services, yet face many challenges to their sobriety due to the difficult nature of being a single parent or sole caregiver. Substance abuse rehab facilities for pregnant and postpartum women sometimes provide inpatient and residential care with beds for clients children, and transition services to sober living programs with continuing outpatient therapy services available to them including healthcare services.

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