Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - Mount Vernon, KY.

The demand for substance abuse treatment centers for pregnant and postpartum women is very high, with special attention to opiate dependent 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. Treatment centers available to pregnant and postpartum women in Mount Vernon offer a comprehensive range of services, non-punitive in nature, to make getting off drugs and alcohol feasible, allow opioid addicted mothers a passage into a clean and healthy pregnancy with non-opioid dependent infants, and receive the rehabilitation they need to stay abstinent while postpartum.

States that provide pregnant and postpartum women with rehab services in lieu of legal penalties, including revocation of their parental rights, have found that these measures sustain the idea of maintaining the family together and maintaining 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 counseling as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some rehab centers may even provide education and training in parenting and include trauma-specific services to work on any abusive relationships which trigger their drug or alcohol abuse as well as emotional and sexual abuse for all family members.

Most women in this situation typically require comprehensive outpatient treatment services, yet face many challenges to their sobriety due to the complex nature of being a single parent. Substance abuse rehabilitation programs for pregnant and postpartum women often offer inpatient and residential treatment with beds for clients children, and aftercare services to sober living programs with continuing outpatient therapy services offered to them including medical services.

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