Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Oak Island, NC.

The need for addiction rehabilitation programs for pregnant and postpartum women is very high, with special attention to opiate dependent pregnant and postpartum women considering 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. Rehab facilities available to pregnant and postpartum women in Oak Island offer broad spectrum of services, non-punitive in nature, to make abstinence from drugs and alcohol feasible, allow opioid dependent mothers the transformation into a clean and healthy pregnancy with non-opioid dependent infants, and receive the recovery they need to remain sober during postpartum.

States that provide pregnant and postpartum women with rehab services alternatively to legal consequences, including 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 well-being of the newborns and other children involved. Services offered at these types of programs might involve individual, group, and family therapy as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some treatment programs may even offer education in parenting and include trauma-specific services to address any type of abusive relationships which bring on their drug or alcohol abuse as well as sexual and emotional abuse for all family members.

Most women in this situation typically need extensive 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 sometimes offer inpatient and residential treatment with beds for clients children, and aftercare services to sober living programs with ongoing outpatient treatment services offered to them including medical services.

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