Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Musella, GA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Musella who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall notion is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug abusing activities that was driven by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. 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 effective as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically difficult, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. However, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy ought to realize that methadone detox is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients because detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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