Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers - Hellertown, PA.

The need for drug and alcohol rehabilitation facilities for pregnant and postpartum women has never been greater, with particular attention to opioid dependent pregnant and postpartum women because 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. Treatment centers offered to pregnant and postpartum women in Hellertown provide a comprehensive spectrum of services, non-punitive in nature, to make abstinence from drugs and alcohol a reality, ensure opioid dependent mothers the transformation into a drug free and healthy pregnancy with non-opioid dependent newborn children, and obtain the rehabilitation they need to remain abstinent while postpartum.

States that provide pregnant and postpartum women with treatment services rather than legal consequences, 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 and sobriety in place so that this positively impact's the well-being of the newborns and other children involved. Services offered at such rehabilitation programs might include group, individual, and family counseling as well as prenatal and postpartum care. Some rehab centers may even offer education in parenting and include trauma-specific services to address any abusive relationships which stimulate their substance abuse as well as sexual and emotional abuse for everyone in the family.

Many women in this situation often require extensive outpatient treatment services, yet face many challenges to their sobriety due to the difficult nature of being a single parent. drug and alcohol rehabilitation facilities for pregnant and postpartum women sometimes offer inpatient and residential care with beds for clients children, and aftercare services to sober living programs with continuing outpatient treatment services offered to them including healthcare services.

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