Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - Ironton, OH.

The need for substance abuse rehabilitation facilities for pregnant and postpartum women has never been greater, with special regards to opioid 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. Programs available to pregnant and postpartum women in Ironton provide a comprehensive spectrum of services, non-punitive in nature, to make getting off drugs and alcohol a reality, ensure opioid dependent mothers the transformation into a drug free and healthy pregnancy with non-opioid dependent newborn children, and receive the recovery they need to stay sober while postpartum.

States that offer pregnant and postpartum women with treatment services alternatively to legal consequences, such as revocation of their parental rights, have found that these measures support the idea of keeping the family as an unit and maintaining the mother's sobriety in place so that this positively impact's the well-being of the newborns and other children involved. Services offered at such programs might involve individual, group, and family counseling as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some treatment programs may even provide training in parenting and include trauma-specific services to handle any abusive relationships which trigger their substance 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 due to the difficult nature of being a single parent. Substance abuse treatment facilities for pregnant and postpartum women often provide inpatient and residential care with beds for clients children, and transition services to sober living facilities with ongoing outpatient treatment services offered to them including medical services.

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