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Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Avon who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall concept is that people are no longer engaged in the drug abusing activities that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.
Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must dose every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially burdensome, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that will not accept methadone maintenance clients because detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.
