Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Centers - Nantucket, MA.

The need for addiction rehabilitation centers for pregnant and postpartum women is very high, with particular regards 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. Rehab facilities available to pregnant and postpartum women in Nantucket offer a comprehensive range of services, non-punitive in nature, to make getting off drugs and alcohol a reality, allow opioid addicted mothers and soon to be mothers a passage into a clean and healthy pregnancy with non-opioid dependent newborn children, and get the treatment they need to stay clean and sober during postpartum.

States that offer pregnant and postpartum women with treatment services alternatively to legal consequences, including revocation of their parental rights, have found that these types of services support the idea of maintaining the family as an unit and keeping the mother's abstinence and sobriety in place so that this positively impact's the welfare 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 programs may even provide training in parenting and incorporate trauma-specific services to work on any abusive relationships which bring on their substance abuse as well as sexual and emotional abuse for all family members.

Many women in this position typically require comprehensive outpatient treatment services, yet face many difficulties to their sobriety because of the complex nature of being a single parent. Substance abuse treatment centers for pregnant and postpartum women often offer inpatient and residential care with beds for clients children, and transition services to sober living facilities with continuing outpatient treatment services available to them including healthcare services.

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