Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Facilities - Carter, KY.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Carter who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall notion is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug using behavior that was driven by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance have to take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically burdensome, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance should realize that methadone detox is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients considering detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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