Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Centers - Courtland, AL.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Courtland who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general concept is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug abusing activities that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance have to dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically difficult, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detox is considered way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox centers that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients because detoxification can be so challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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