Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Holy Trinity, AL.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Holy Trinity who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general idea is that people are no longer engaged in the drug abusing activities that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically difficult, but some find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy should be aware of the fact that methadone detox is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification facilities that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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