Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Programs - Lost Creek, KY.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Lost Creek who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall idea is that people are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like 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 successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially burdensome, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy ought to know that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients because detoxification can be very challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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