Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Programs - Elkton, OR.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Elkton who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall concept is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug using activities that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must take it daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially difficult, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance ought to realize that methadone detoxification is considered way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients since detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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