Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Stratford, TX.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Stratford who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall concept is that people are no longer involved in the drug abusing behavior that was caused by their addiction due to 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 receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically difficult, but some people feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detoxification is considered way more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients since detox can be so challenging and relapse rates are considerably high.

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