Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Centers - Little Rock, IA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Little Rock who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general concept is that people are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was driven by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satisfies 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 substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically difficult, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to be aware of the fact that methadone detox is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox centers that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients because detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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