Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Programs - Meadow, TX.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Meadow who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general concept is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug using behavior that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance have to dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically challenging, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance should know that methadone detoxification is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detox facilities that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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