Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - Sunset Hills, MO.

The need for drug and alcohol treatment facilities 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 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 provided for pregnant and postpartum women in Sunset Hills provide broad range of services, non-punitive in nature, to make abstinence from drugs and alcohol a reality, allow opioid dependent mothers and soon to be mothers transition into a drug free and healthy pregnancy with non-addicted infants, and obtain the treatment they need to stay sober while postpartum.

States which 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 sustain the idea of keeping the family together and keeping the mother's abstinence in place so that this positively impact's the well-being of the infants and other children involved. Services offered at such programs may involve group, individual, and family therapy as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some treatment programs may even offer education and training in parenting and include trauma-specific services to work on any abusive relationships which trigger their drug or alcohol abuse as well as sexual and emotional abuse for everyone in the family.

Many women in this situation often require comprehensive outpatient treatment services, yet face many challenges to their sobriety due to the difficult nature of being a single parent. Substance abuse rehabilitation centers for pregnant and postpartum women often provide residential and inpatient care with beds for clients children, and transition services to sober living programs with ongoing outpatient therapy services available to them including healthcare services.

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