Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Centers - Mountain Home, AR.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Mountain Home who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall idea is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug abusing activities that was driven by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must take it daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance should 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 some detox centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients considering detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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