Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Centers - Tallulah Falls, GA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Tallulah Falls who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general concept is that clients are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially challenging, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on 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 on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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