Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Facilities - Hazleton, IN.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Hazleton who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general concept is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug abusing activities that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance must dose every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially difficult, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy ought to know that methadone detoxification is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox facilities that won't even take methadone maintenance clients considering detox can be very difficult and relapse rates are very high.

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