Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Fort Necessity, LA.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Fort Necessity who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall idea is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was brought on by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically challenging, but some feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detoxification is considered way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients since detox can be very challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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