Pregnant and Postpartum Women - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Northampton, PA.

The need for substance abuse rehabilitation centers for pregnant and postpartum women is very high, with exceptional attention to opioid addicted 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. Programs provided for pregnant and postpartum women in Northampton provide a comprehensive spectrum of services, non-punitive in nature, to make getting clean from drugs and alcohol a reality, allow opioid addicted mothers and soon to be mothers transition into a clean and healthy pregnancy with non-addicted newborn children, and obtain the treatment they need to remain clean and sober during postpartum.

States which provide pregnant and postpartum women with treatment services rather than legal consequences, including revocation of their parental rights, have found that these types of services support the idea of maintaining the family together and keeping the mother's sobriety in place so that this positively enforces the well-being of the infants and other children involved. Services provided at such rehabilitation programs might 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 type of abusive relationships which trigger their substance abuse as well as emotional and sexual abuse for everyone in the family.

Many women in this position usually require extensive outpatient treatment services, but face many challenges to their sobriety because of the complex nature of being a single parent or sole caregiver. Substance abuse rehabilitation facilities for pregnant and postpartum women sometimes offer residential and inpatient 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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