Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Centers - Egan, LA.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Egan who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall concept is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug using activities that was driven by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically difficult, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, 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 high dosage of methadone, there are many detox facilities that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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