Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers - Empire, CO.

The need for substance abuse rehabilitation programs for pregnant and postpartum women has never been greater, with particular attention to opioid 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 offered to pregnant and postpartum women in Empire provide broad spectrum of services, non-punitive in nature, to make abstinence from drugs and alcohol possible, allow opioid addicted mothers and soon to be mothers transition into a clean and healthy pregnancy with non-addicted newborn children, and get the rehabilitation they need to stay abstinent while postpartum.

States which provide pregnant and postpartum women with treatment services rather than legal penalties, 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 abstinence in place so that this positively impact's the welfare of the newborns and other children involved. Services provided at these types of rehabilitation programs may include 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 handle any type of abusive relationships which stimulate their substance abuse as well as sexual and emotional abuse for all family members.

Most women in this situation typically require comprehensive outpatient treatment services, but face many difficulties to their sobriety because of the difficult nature of being a single parent. Substance abuse treatment facilities for pregnant and postpartum women sometimes provide inpatient and residential care with beds for clients children, and transition services to sober living facilities with ongoing outpatient therapy services available to them including medical services.

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