Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - Lake Charles, LA.

The demand for drug and alcohol treatment centers for pregnant and postpartum women is very high, with exceptional 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. Treatment centers available to pregnant and postpartum women in Lake Charles offer wide spectrum of services, non-punitive in nature, to make getting clean from drugs and alcohol feasible, allow opioid dependent mothers a passage into a clean and healthy pregnancy with non-addicted newborn children, and receive the rehabilitation they need to stay abstinent during postpartum.

States that offer pregnant and postpartum mothers with treatment 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 maintaining the mother's sobriety in place so that this positively impact's the well-being of the infants and other children involved. Services provided at such rehabilitation programs may include individual, group, and family counseling as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some treatment programs may even provide education in parenthood and include trauma-specific services to handle any type of abusive relationships which trigger their substance abuse as well as sexual and emotional abuse for everyone in the family.

Many women in this situation usually need comprehensive outpatient treatment services, yet face many challenges to their sobriety because of the difficult nature of being a single parent. Substance abuse treatment programs for pregnant and postpartum women often provide residential and inpatient care with beds for clients children, and transition services to sober living facilities with ongoing outpatient treatment services available to them including healthcare services.

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