Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facilities - Spray, OR.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Spray who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general notion is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug abusing behavior that was driven by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically difficult, but some people feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone starting on methadone maintenance should know that methadone detoxification is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients considering detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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