Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Programs - Hackleburg, AL.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Hackleburg who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general concept is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance must take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically difficult, but some people find it a better option than a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detox is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox centers that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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