Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers - Andersonville, GA.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Andersonville who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general concept is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug abusing behavior that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially challenging, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detox is considered way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients considering detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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