Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Facilities - Forest Hill, LA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Forest Hill who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general concept is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug using behavior that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially challenging, but some feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. However, people starting on methadone maintenance should know that methadone detox is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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