Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Programs - Daytona Beach Shores, FL.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Daytona Beach Shores who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general idea is that people are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was driven by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. 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 successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically challenging, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detoxification is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification facilities that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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