Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Sun City, AZ.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for individuals in Sun City who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall idea is that clients are no longer involved in the drug abusing activities that was caused by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically challenging, but some people feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy should realize 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 many detoxification centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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