Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Centers - Aubrey, AR.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Aubrey who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall concept is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug abusing behavior that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must take it daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically challenging, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to know that methadone detox is considered far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification facilities that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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