Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Programs - Webb, AL.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Webb who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general concept is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior that was driven by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neurons 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.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially challenging, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, those starting on methadone maintenance should know that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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