Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Facilities - Nashville, GA.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Nashville who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general concept is that clients are no longer engaged 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 symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially burdensome, but some people feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone beginning methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detox is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox facilities that will not accept methadone maintenance clients considering detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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