Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Programs - Grosse Tete, LA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Grosse Tete who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall idea is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug using behavior that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance have to dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially challenging, but some find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification programs that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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