Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Pell City, AL.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Pell City 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 overall idea is that people are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People involved in methadone maintenance therapy must dose every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to know that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification programs that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients since detox can be very challenging and relapse rates are considerably high.

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