Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - College Park, MD.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in College Park who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall notion is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug using behavior that was caused by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically burdensome, but some feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to know that methadone detoxification is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox facilities that will not accept methadone maintenance clients since detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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