Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - Port St. Lucie, FL.

The need for drug and alcohol treatment facilities for pregnant and postpartum women is very high, with exceptional regards to opiate dependent 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 offered to pregnant and postpartum women in Port St. Lucie offer a comprehensive spectrum of services, non-punitive in nature, to make abstinence from drugs and alcohol feasible, allow opioid dependent mothers and soon to be mothers the transformation into a sober and healthy pregnancy with non-opioid dependent infants, and receive the recovery they need to remain sober during postpartum.

States which provide pregnant and postpartum mothers with rehab services alternatively to legal penalties, such as revocation of their parental rights, have found that these types of services support the idea of maintaining the family as an unit and maintaining the mother's abstinence in place so that this positively impact's the well-being of the newborns and other children involved. Services delivered at such programs may involve individual, group, and family counseling as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some treatment programs may even provide training in parenthood and incorporate trauma-specific services to handle any type of abusive relationships which stimulate their drug or alcohol abuse as well as emotional and sexual abuse for all family members.

Most women in this position often require comprehensive outpatient treatment services, but face many difficulties to their sobriety because of the difficult nature of being a single parent. Substance abuse rehabilitation centers for pregnant and postpartum women often offer inpatient and residential treatment with beds for clients children, and aftercare services to sober living programs with ongoing outpatient therapy services available to them including medical services.

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