Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Dewy Rose, GA.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Dewy Rose who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall concept is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug using activities that was caused by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and 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 other prescription opioids.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance must take it daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically challenging, but some feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is considered way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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