Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Centers - Danville, GA.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Danville who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall concept is that clients are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satisfies 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 replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically burdensome, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detoxification is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients since detox can be very difficult and relapse rates are very high.

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