Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - Chicago Ridge, IL.

The demand for substance abuse rehab programs for pregnant and postpartum women is very high, with particular attention to opiate addicted 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 offered to pregnant and postpartum women in Chicago Ridge offer broad range of services, non-punitive in nature, to make getting clean from drugs and alcohol a reality, allow opioid dependent mothers a passage into a clean and healthy pregnancy with non-opioid dependent infants, and receive the rehabilitation they need to remain sober while postpartum.

States which provide pregnant and postpartum women with rehab services in lieu of legal penalties, such as revocation of their parental rights, have found that these types of services sustain the idea of maintaining the family as an unit and keeping the mother's abstinence in place so that this positively enforces the well-being of the infants and other children involved. Services provided at such rehabilitation programs might include group, individual, and family counseling as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some treatment programs may even provide education in parenting and include trauma-specific services to address 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 normally need extensive outpatient treatment services, but face many difficulties to their sobriety due to the complex nature of being a single parent or sole caregiver. Substance abuse treatment programs for pregnant and postpartum women sometimes provide inpatient and residential treatment with beds for clients children, and aftercare services to sober living facilities with continuing outpatient therapy services available to them including healthcare services.

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