Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - Petrolia, CA.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Petrolia who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall concept is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior that was caused by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Individuals involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically burdensome, but some people feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone beginning methadone maintenance need to know that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox programs that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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