Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers - Palermo, ME.

The need for substance abuse treatment facilities for pregnant and postpartum women is very high, with exceptional attention to opiate addicted pregnant and postpartum women considering 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 provided for pregnant and postpartum women in Palermo provide broad spectrum of services, non-punitive in nature, to make abstinence from drugs and alcohol a reality, allow opioid addicted mothers and soon to be mothers transition into a sober and healthy pregnancy with non-addicted infants, and obtain the recovery they need to remain abstinent while postpartum.

States that offer pregnant and postpartum women with rehab services rather than legal penalties, such as revocation of their parental rights, have found that these measures sustain the idea of maintaining the family as an unit and maintaining the mother's abstinence in place so that this positively enforces the welfare of the newborns and other children involved. Services delivered at these types of rehabilitation programs may include group, individual, and family therapy as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some treatment programs may even provide training in parenthood and include trauma-specific services to work on any type of abusive relationships which stimulate their drug or alcohol abuse as well as sexual and emotional abuse for all family members.

Many women in this situation often require extensive outpatient treatment services, but 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 sometimes provide residential and inpatient treatment with beds for clients children, and aftercare services to sober living facilities with ongoing outpatient treatment services available to them including medical services.

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