Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Programs - Old Lyme, CT.

The need for substance abuse rehabilitation centers for pregnant and postpartum women has never been greater, with exceptional regards to opioid dependent 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. Rehab facilities provided for pregnant and postpartum women in Old Lyme provide wide spectrum of services, non-punitive in nature, to make getting clean from drugs and alcohol possible, ensure opioid addicted mothers transition into a drug free and healthy pregnancy with non-opioid dependent newborn children, and get the rehabilitation they need to stay abstinent during postpartum.

States that offer pregnant and postpartum women with treatment services rather than legal consequences, including revocation of their parental rights, have found that these measures support the idea of maintaining the family as an unit and keeping the mother's abstinence and sobriety in place so that this positively enforces the welfare of the newborns and other children involved. Services delivered at these types of programs might involve individual, group, and family counseling as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some treatment programs may even provide training in parenthood and include trauma-specific services to handle any type of abusive relationships which trigger their substance abuse as well as sexual and emotional abuse for everyone in the family.

Most women in this situation typically require comprehensive outpatient treatment services, but face many challenges to their sobriety due to the complex nature of being a single parent. Substance abuse rehab 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 therapy services available to them including healthcare services.

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