Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facilities - Lakeview Heights, KY.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Lakeview Heights who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general notion is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug abusing behavior that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially burdensome, but some feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detox is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification facilities that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients since detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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