Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers - Romney, IN.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Romney who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall idea is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug using behavior that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically difficult, but some people feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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