Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Centers - St. Amant, LA.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in St. Amant who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general notion is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior that was caused by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates 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.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must take it daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some people feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients considering detoxification can be very challenging and relapse rates are considerably high.

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