Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Centers - Pinckard, AL.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Pinckard who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general concept is that people are no longer involved in the drug using activities that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must take it daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially challenging, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance ought to realize that methadone detoxification is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients since detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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