Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Programs - Morrow, GA.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Morrow who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general concept is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug abusing behavior that was caused by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must dose every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically difficult, but some people find it a better option than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance should be aware of the fact 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 facilities that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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