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

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Sondheimer who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall notion is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug abusing activities that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially challenging, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detox is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification facilities that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so challenging and relapse rates are considerably high.

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