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

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Graysville who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general notion is that people are no longer engaged in the drug abusing activities that was caused by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like 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 powerful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically challenging, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those beginning methadone maintenance should realize that methadone detox is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detox centers that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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