Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Centers - Ama, LA.

The need for substance abuse treatment programs for pregnant and postpartum women has never been greater, with particular attention to opiate addicted pregnant and postpartum women considering 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 provided for pregnant and postpartum women in Ama provide a comprehensive range of services, non-punitive in nature, to make getting off drugs and alcohol a reality, ensure opioid addicted mothers transition into a sober and healthy pregnancy with non-opioid dependent infants, and get the recovery they need to remain abstinent while postpartum.

States that provide pregnant and postpartum women with rehab services in lieu of legal consequences, such as revocation of their parental rights, have found that these types of services sustain the idea of maintaining the family as an unit and keeping the mother's abstinence and sobriety in place so that this positively impact's the welfare of the newborns and other children involved. Services offered at such rehabilitation programs might involve individual, group, and family therapy as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some rehab centers may even provide training in parenthood and include trauma-specific services to work on any abusive relationships which stimulate their substance 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 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 provide residential and inpatient treatment with beds for clients children, and transition services to sober living facilities with continuing outpatient treatment services available to them including medical services.

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