Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Programs - Welling, OK.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Welling who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general idea is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satisfies 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 substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Individuals involved in methadone maintenance must take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically difficult, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance should be aware of the fact that methadone detox is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox facilities that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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