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Major Cities in Missouri with Drug Rehab and Treatment Centers:
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Drug Rehab Missouri
is here to help people with drug and/or alcohol abuse problems in Missouri. find treatment options. Due to our diverse networking system we can find a treatment option tailored to each individuals specific situation and needs. We are able to provide all phases of recovery included but not limited to, alcohol and/or drug intervention, drug and/or alcohol detox, in-patient treatment, out-patient treatment, short term treatment (30 days or less), long term treatment (90 days or longer).
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We design personalized treatment programs to provide each abuser with the greatest chance of a successful recovery outcome. Our comprehensive networking system works hand in hand with all of the drug treatment centers in Missouri. At Drug Rehab Missouri we know that each individual is unique and are treated as such. Deciding upon a treatment option in Missouri, or anywhere can be a daunting task for any individual or family, we will guide you through each step of a comprehensive treatment plan for you or your loved one. We are determined in our mission, that every drug and/or alcohol abuser in Missouri. that has a desire to change their life will be given a chance to recover from their addiction and we are dedicated to ensuring that they are given the opportunity to do so.
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We realize that each individual in Missouri. is in a different financial situation and we will find treatment options for each individual regardless of their financial situation. No matter what your financial situation everyone will receive the treatment help they are looking for.
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Missouri program helps women kick drugs, keep kids“Being a pregnant addict is one of the toughest things I've ever done. You are fighting it. You don't want to get high, but nothing else will make you feel better.” Peggy Cunliffe
Hooked on crack cocaine throughout her third pregnancy, Peggy Cunliffe avoided prenatal care to avoid detection.
After giving birth, she fretted that hospital staff would discover her drug use, so she left with her baby before test results on the baby's first bowel movement came back.
Cunliffe secluded herself in a weekly rate Kansas City, Missouri motel with her boyfriend and other children. She felt like a fugitive. She knew that the doctors would learn what she'd done — that for the third time, she'd given birth to a drug-exposed infant. And they would tell child-abuse investigators.
Sure enough, several days later, her phone rang. A Missouri Division of Family Services worker on the other end warned Cunliffe not to leave her motel room. “I'm on my way,” the worker said.
Trapped and defeated and guilty and afraid, Cunliffe waited for the inevitable.
But instead of losing her children to foster care, as she feared, Cunliffe gained an opportunity to remold her life and improve her parenting.
Among other things, the DFS worker suggested Cunliffe enter a voluntary program called TIES, or Team for Infants Endangered by Substance Abuse. Headed by Children's Mercy Hospital, TIES enrolls expectant mothers and new mothers who've used illegal drugs during pregnancy.
Enrollees are referred to drug treatment, provided counseling, taught parenting skills and linked to a variety of other services, such as housing assistance. Proper health care, one of the program's goals, is stressed for all family members, including older children in the home.
A dozen agencies collaborate to help the families, but much of the work is done by five home-visit specialists, each of whom maintains close contact with 10 families at a time.
Not all moms succeed. Some drop out, some fail drug rehabilitation, some lose their children to foster care anyway because TIES workers are required to report suspected abuse and neglect.
But in the last eight years, almost 70 percent of families have graduated, which means the mothers remained with the program at least 18 months.
“We have families who have done very well, and families who have done very badly, and most of the families are somewhere between those two,” said Oneta Templeton McMann, the program's coordinator at Children's Mercy.
Now entering its 14th year, the program grew out of a national problem in the 1980s. Mothers were abandoning drug-affected and HIV-positive babies at hospitals. In response, Congress enacted the Abandoned Infants Assistance Act, which provided funding for programs to prevent abandonment and promote safe, healthy and permanent families for children.
The TIES program, one of the first nationally to receive funding, originally targeted cocaine-exposed babies in Kansas City, Missouri. A metropolitan task force had formed to discuss what to do about those babies, whom health experts feared would suffer long-term negative effects from their mother's drug use.
Initially, Truman Medical Center referred mothers after they or their children tested positive, and state child-abuse investigators were notified of the test results. Child-abuse workers told the mothers they had to participate in TIES if they wanted to take their babies home from the hospital.
“We cut our teeth on women who didn't want our involvement,” recalled McMann, who's been with the program since its inception.
In the first years, women obtained their baby's medical care at Children's Mercy, which tracked how the babies developed for 36 months. After six years, it was clear that the cocaine-exposed babies were not developing the severe medical problems experts had predicted, McMann said.
The need to continue extensive medical testing ended, and the TIES program revamped itself. It shortened the participation time to 18 months after the baby's birth while expanding eligibility to mothers battling other drugs, including PCP and methamphetamines.
Today, the program has served 374 families.
Of the 169 mothers who enrolled while pregnant, 95 stopped using drugs long enough to deliver babies who tested negative for drugs at birth. TIES officials lost track of 32 other women before the babies arrived.
To participate, mothers must be at least 18 years old. The average enrollee is 27 and already has other children. The program targets women living in most Kansas City ZIP codes south of the Missouri River. Fifty families can participate at a time.
Children's Mercy receives $450,000 in federal funding each year and $50,000 in Jackson County, Missouri drug-tax funds each year for TIES. The project partners are Rediscover Substance Abuse Services, Renaissance West Women's Place, Rose Brooks Center, St. Vincent's Operation Breakthrough, Truman Medical Center, The Children's Place, The Salvation Army, American Indian Council, Kansas City Health Department, Samuel Rodgers Community Health Center, Jackson County Family Court and the Missouri Children's Division, which replaced DFS last year.
Though Cunliffe previously had given birth to drug-exposed babies, she never heard of TIES until her DFS worker mentioned it.
At the time DFS caught up with her, Cunliffe still faced drug-possession charges. She'd already been involved in court-related drug programs, but instead of getting help, she'd figured out how to beat the system's drug-monitoring tests. After all, the 37-year-old former waitress had been using drugs since she was 11. It was so much a part of her life she couldn't give drugs up even when she became pregnant.
“Being a pregnant addict is one of the toughest things I've ever done,” Cunliffe recalled recently. “You are fighting it. You don't want to get high, but nothing else will make you feel better.”
She sometimes left her two other children with her boyfriend, Chip Johnson, for days. When she disappeared like that, it meant she was using drugs.
When DFS found them, Johnson, a former school teacher, had quit work because the progression of his cerebral palsy limited his ability to get around. Neither adult had a car. They lived in the motel with Tyrus, then nearly 4, and Jacqueline, then nearly 2, and Shane, the newborn.
They knew Tyrus had a medical problem, but Cunliffe's fear of doctors meant the problem — autism — remained undiagnosed. Jacqueline, meanwhile, had fallen behind on her inoculations.
TIES worker Jackie Metheny began mapping ways to help, starting with drug rehabilitation. Cunliffe entered a program at North Star Recovery Services, which since changed its name to Rediscover Substance Abuse Services. Cunliffe now says she was sick of getting high.
Metheny also scheduled doctors' appointments for the children and drove Cunliffe to medical checkups, court hearings and other appointments. She helped Cunliffe get a car, a crib and car seats and also find early-childhood programs for the children. She taught Cunliffe the importance of spending time with each child, including Jacqueline, who was getting lost between a high-needs older brother with autism and the time-consuming needs of a newborn.
And when Cunliffe spent a day in jail because of her drug-possession charges, Cunliffe lobbied court officials to let Johnson keep the children. The court agreed.
For the first several weeks, Metheny and Cunliffe saw or spoke to each other at least daily.
“That's the luxury of our program,” Metheny said during a recent visit to Cunliffe's apartment in a group home for recovering women. “We have manageable caseloads to be on call.”
Nine months have gone by since Cunliffe enrolled in TIES. Cunliffe says she's stayed clean.
Johnson, 42, who plans to marry Cunliffe in April, sat on a couch in the apartment as Cunliffe told her story. He's not allowed to live at the apartment but can visit at specified times. Though his fiancé still has much work to do, Johnson credits TIES for encouraging her to mend her ways.
“Jackie put her on the right track,” Johnson said, pointing to Metheny. “There's a 150 percent difference between Peg now and then. There's a different person sitting here.”
When Metheny received the case, the family “looked horrible on paper,'' Metheny said.
“They have made exceptional gains in every aspect,” Metheny said. “There's still a struggle ahead. She's early in her recovery. The kids have developmental issues. And I've told Peggy repeatedly that what I really want to work on is her. She is the caregiver of a lot of children — and an adult, in a lot of ways.”
Today, Cunliffe's dreams include marrying Johnson, finding a house with a backyard for the children and attending college.
“The kind of goals we are setting, they have to be short term,” Cunliffe said. “But as far as sobriety, that's what I want.”
No more drugs?
“I don't ever see myself going back there,” she said.
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