Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Centers - Fort Payne, AL.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Fort Payne who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general idea is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug using activities that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Individuals enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially difficult, but some find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients since detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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