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

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Spade who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall idea is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug using activities that was driven by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance have to dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to 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 detoxification programs that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very difficult and relapse rates are very high.

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