Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Centers - Frankfort, IN.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Frankfort who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall notion is that individuals are no longer wrapped up in the drug abusing activities that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. 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 powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance have to take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially burdensome, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detox is considered far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients since detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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