Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facilities - Banning, CA.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Banning who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall notion is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug using activities that was driven by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neurons 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.

Individuals involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically challenging, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance should be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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