Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Programs - Grove Hill, AL.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Grove Hill who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general idea is that clients are no longer involved in the drug using activities that was driven by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

People involved in methadone maintenance therapy must dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially burdensome, but some people find it a better option than a heroin addiction. However, people starting on methadone maintenance need to know that methadone detoxification is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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