Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers - Merritt Island, FL.

The demand for addiction rehab facilities for pregnant and postpartum women is very high, with exceptional attention to opioid addicted 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 available to pregnant and postpartum women in Merritt Island offer a comprehensive spectrum of services, non-punitive in nature, to make abstinence from drugs and alcohol possible, ensure opioid dependent mothers a passage into a sober and healthy pregnancy with non-opioid dependent newborn children, and get the recovery they need to remain abstinent during postpartum.

States that offer pregnant and postpartum women with rehab services rather than legal penalties, such as revocation of their parental rights, have found that these measures support the idea of keeping the family as an unit and keeping the mother's abstinence in place so that this positively impact's the well-being of the infants and other children involved. Services offered at such rehabilitation programs might include individual, group, and family counseling as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some treatment programs may even offer education in parenthood and incorporate trauma-specific services to handle any type of abusive relationships which bring on their substance abuse as well as sexual and emotional abuse for everyone in the family.

Most women in this situation normally require extensive outpatient treatment services, but face many difficulties to their sobriety because of the difficult nature of being a single parent or sole caregiver. Substance abuse rehab programs for pregnant and postpartum women sometimes provide inpatient and residential care with beds for clients children, and aftercare services to sober living programs with continuing outpatient treatment services available to them including healthcare services.

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