Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Hobbs, IN.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Hobbs who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall notion is that people are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior that was driven 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 neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

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

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