Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - Moores Hill, IN.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Moores Hill who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall notion is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug using behavior that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically challenging, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. However, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to know that methadone detoxification is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients considering detox can be so difficult and relapse rates are considerably high.

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