Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facilities - Greenford, OH.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Greenford who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general idea is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. 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 effective as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially difficult, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance should realize that methadone detox is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients since detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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