Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Augusta, ME.

The need for substance abuse rehab facilities for pregnant and postpartum women is very high, with exceptional 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. Rehab facilities available to pregnant and postpartum women in Augusta provide broad spectrum of services, non-punitive in nature, to make getting off drugs and alcohol a reality, allow opioid dependent mothers a passage into a sober and healthy pregnancy with non-addicted infants, and obtain the recovery they need to remain sober while postpartum.

States which provide pregnant and postpartum mothers with rehab services alternatively to legal consequences, 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 welfare of the newborns and other children involved. Services provided at these types of rehabilitation programs might include group, individual, and family therapy as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some treatment programs may even provide education and training in parenthood and incorporate trauma-specific services to address any abusive relationships which trigger their drug or alcohol abuse as well as sexual and emotional abuse for all family members.

Many women in this situation often require comprehensive outpatient treatment services, but face many challenges to their sobriety due to the complex nature of being a single parent. Substance abuse rehab centers 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 medical services.

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