Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Centers - Ironsides, MD.

The demand for drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers for pregnant and postpartum women is very high, with exceptional 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 available to pregnant and postpartum women in Ironsides offer broad range of services, non-punitive in nature, to make getting clean from drugs and alcohol feasible, ensure opioid dependent mothers transition into a drug free and healthy pregnancy with non-addicted infants, and obtain the recovery they need to remain abstinent while postpartum.

States which provide pregnant and postpartum mothers with rehab services rather than legal consequences, such as revocation of their parental rights, have found that these types of services sustain the idea of keeping the family as an unit and keeping the mother's sobriety in place so that this positively enforces the welfare of the newborns and other children involved. Services provided at these types of programs may include individual, group, and family counseling as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some rehab centers may even offer training in parenting and include trauma-specific services to handle any abusive relationships which bring on their drug or alcohol abuse as well as emotional and sexual abuse for everyone in the family.

Most women in this situation usually need extensive outpatient treatment services, yet face many difficulties to their sobriety due to the complex nature of being a single parent or sole caregiver. Substance abuse rehabilitation centers for pregnant and postpartum women sometimes offer inpatient and residential treatment with beds for clients children, and transition services to sober living facilities with continuing outpatient therapy services available to them including medical services.

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