Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Simsboro, LA.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Simsboro who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall concept is that clients are no longer involved in the drug seeking activities that was driven by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically burdensome, 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 far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients considering detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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