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

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Union Grove who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall concept is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug using behavior that was caused by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to 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 effective as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially challenging, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance should realize that methadone detox is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients considering detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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