Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Centers - Abernant, AL.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Abernant who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general notion is that people are no longer involved in the drug seeking activities that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically difficult, but some feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification facilities that won't even take methadone maintenance clients since detoxification can be so challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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