Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers - Mount Zion, GA.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Mount Zion who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general concept is that people are no longer involved in the drug seeking activities 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 and activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically burdensome, but some people feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is considered far 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 detoxification can be so challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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