Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Gulf Shores, AL.

The need for drug and alcohol rehabilitation facilities for pregnant and postpartum women is very high, with special attention to opioid addicted pregnant and postpartum women because cases of neonatal abstinence syndrome have increased 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 offered to pregnant and postpartum women in Gulf Shores offer a comprehensive range of services, non-punitive in nature, to make getting off drugs and alcohol a reality, ensure opioid addicted mothers and soon to be mothers a passage into a clean and healthy pregnancy with non-addicted newborn children, and get the treatment they need to stay abstinent while postpartum.

States that provide pregnant and postpartum women with treatment services rather than legal penalties, such as revocation of their parental rights, have found that these types of services support the idea of maintaining the family together and keeping the mother's abstinence in place so that this positively impact's the welfare of the infants and other children involved. Services offered at these types of rehabilitation programs may involve group, individual, and family therapy as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some rehab centers may even offer education 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 all family members.

Most women in this position often require comprehensive outpatient treatment services, but face many challenges to their sobriety because of the difficult nature of being a single parent or sole caregiver. Substance abuse rehab centers for pregnant and postpartum women often provide inpatient and residential care with beds for clients children, and transition services to sober living programs with continuing outpatient therapy services offered to them including healthcare services.

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