Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - Tonopah, AZ.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Tonopah who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall concept is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug using behavior that was driven by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Individuals involved in methadone maintenance have to take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some people feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detox facilities that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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