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Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Shreveport who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general idea is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug abusing activities that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satisfies 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 successful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.
Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy ought to realize that methadone detoxification is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients since detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.
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