Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Programs - Chase, LA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Chase who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall concept is that people are no longer involved in the drug seeking activities that was caused by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People involved in methadone maintenance therapy must take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically difficult, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance need to be aware of the fact that methadone detox is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification facilities that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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