Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Castor, LA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Castor 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 wrapped up in the drug seeking behavior that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must take it daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically challenging, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, those starting on methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detox is considered far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and relapse rates are very high.

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