Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - Little Rock, SC.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Little Rock who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall concept is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug using behavior that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically difficult, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those starting on methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detoxification is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients considering detox can be so challenging and relapse rates are considerably high.

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