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Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in New Orleans who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general concept is that clients are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was driven by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.
Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially difficult, but some people find it a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy should be aware of the fact that methadone detox is considered way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.
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