Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - Carmel, ME.

The need for addiction treatment programs for pregnant and postpartum women is very high, with particular attention to opiate addicted pregnant and postpartum women because cases of neonatal abstinence syndrome have increased 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 Carmel provide 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 transition into a clean and healthy pregnancy with non-addicted infants, and receive the treatment they need to remain abstinent while postpartum.

States that offer pregnant and postpartum women with treatment services alternatively to legal penalties, including revocation of their parental rights, have found that these types of services sustain 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 infants and other children involved. Services provided at such programs may involve individual, group, and family counseling as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some programs may even provide education and training in parenting and incorporate trauma-specific services to address any type of abusive relationships which stimulate their drug or alcohol abuse as well as emotional and sexual abuse for all family members.

Many women in this situation normally need extensive outpatient treatment services, but face many challenges to their sobriety because of the difficult nature of being a single parent. Substance abuse rehab programs for pregnant and postpartum women sometimes provide inpatient and residential treatment with beds for clients children, and aftercare services to sober living programs with continuing outpatient treatment services offered to them including medical services.

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