Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Seminole, FL.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Seminole who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general idea is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was caused by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and 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.

Individuals involved in methadone maintenance have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically challenging, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to know that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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