Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - Custer, KY.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Custer who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general concept is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug abusing activities that was brought on by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially challenging, but some people feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy should be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is considered way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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