Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Programs - Peaks Island, ME.

The need for drug and alcohol treatment centers for pregnant and postpartum women has never been greater, with exceptional regards to opiate addicted pregnant and postpartum women since 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 Peaks Island provide a comprehensive range of services, non-punitive in nature, to make getting off drugs and alcohol possible, allow opioid dependent mothers and soon to be mothers transition into a sober and healthy pregnancy with non-opioid dependent infants, and get the treatment they need to stay abstinent while postpartum.

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

Many women in this situation normally require extensive outpatient treatment services, yet face many difficulties to their sobriety because of the complex nature of being a single parent or sole caregiver. Substance abuse rehabilitation facilities for pregnant and postpartum women sometimes offer inpatient and residential treatment with beds for clients children, and transition services to sober living facilities with continuing outpatient treatment services offered to them including medical services.

For All Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Centers In Peaks Island, Click Here.