Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - The Plains, VA.

The demand for drug and alcohol rehabilitation facilities for pregnant and postpartum women is very high, with special attention to opiate dependent pregnant and postpartum women since 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 offered to pregnant and postpartum women in The Plains offer a comprehensive spectrum of services, non-punitive in nature, to make getting clean from drugs and alcohol a reality, allow opioid addicted mothers and soon to be mothers transition into a sober and healthy pregnancy with non-opioid dependent newborn children, and get the rehabilitation they need to stay sober during postpartum.

States that provide pregnant and postpartum mothers with rehab services in lieu of legal penalties, such as revocation of their parental rights, have found that these measures support the idea of maintaining the family as an unit and maintaining the mother's abstinence and sobriety in place so that this positively impact's the well-being of the newborns and other children involved. Services provided at these types of programs may involve group, individual, and family counseling as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some treatment programs may even provide training in parenting and incorporate trauma-specific services to work on any type of abusive relationships which trigger their drug or alcohol abuse as well as emotional and sexual abuse for everyone in the family.

Many women in this situation often require comprehensive outpatient treatment services, yet face many difficulties to their sobriety due to the difficult nature of being a single parent or sole caregiver. Substance abuse rehabilitation facilities for pregnant and postpartum women sometimes provide inpatient and residential treatment with beds for clients children, and transition services to sober living facilities with ongoing outpatient therapy services offered to them including medical services.

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