Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Centers - Luzerne, PA.

The need for drug and alcohol rehab facilities for pregnant and postpartum women is very high, with particular 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 available to pregnant and postpartum women in Luzerne provide a comprehensive range of services, non-punitive in nature, to make getting clean from drugs and alcohol possible, allow opioid dependent mothers and soon to be mothers a passage into a drug free and healthy pregnancy with non-addicted newborn children, and get the recovery they need to remain abstinent during postpartum.

States that offer pregnant and postpartum mothers with rehab services in lieu of 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 keeping the mother's abstinence in place so that this positively impact's the welfare of the infants and other children involved. Services provided at such rehabilitation programs might include group, individual, and family counseling as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some treatment programs may even provide education and training in parenthood and include trauma-specific services to work on any abusive relationships which bring on their substance abuse as well as sexual and emotional abuse for everyone in the family.

Many women in this position typically need extensive outpatient treatment services, yet face many challenges to their sobriety because of the difficult nature of being a single parent. Substance abuse rehabilitation facilities for pregnant and postpartum women sometimes provide residential and inpatient care with beds for clients children, and aftercare services to sober living facilities with ongoing outpatient therapy services offered to them including medical services.

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