The need for substance abuse rehabilitation centers for pregnant and postpartum women has never been greater, with special attention to opiate addicted pregnant and postpartum women because 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 offered to pregnant and postpartum women in Ford provide wide range of services, non-punitive in nature, to make abstinence from drugs and alcohol feasible, allow opioid addicted mothers and soon to be mothers a passage into a clean and healthy pregnancy with non-opioid dependent newborn children, and obtain the treatment they need to stay sober while postpartum.
States which provide pregnant and postpartum mothers with rehab services alternatively to legal consequences, including revocation of their parental rights, have found that these measures sustain the idea of keeping the family together and keeping the mother's abstinence and sobriety in place so that this positively impact's the welfare of the infants and other children involved. Services provided at these types of programs might involve group, individual, and family therapy as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some treatment programs may even offer education and training in parenthood and include trauma-specific services to address any type of abusive relationships which trigger their substance abuse as well as emotional and sexual abuse for everyone in the family.
Many women in this situation typically need comprehensive outpatient treatment services, but face many challenges to their sobriety because of the difficult nature of being a single parent or sole caregiver. Substance abuse treatment programs for pregnant and postpartum women sometimes offer residential and inpatient treatment with beds for clients children, and transition services to sober living programs with continuing outpatient therapy services available to them including medical services.