Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Centers - Summerville, OR.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Summerville who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall concept is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug using behavior that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Individuals enrolled in methadone maintenance have to dose every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically difficult, but some feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those starting on methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detoxification is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox centers that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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