Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Avery Island, LA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Avery Island who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general concept is that people are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior that was driven by their addiction because 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 powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially challenging, but some people find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those beginning methadone maintenance should know that methadone detox is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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