Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Mayfield, KY.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Mayfield who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general idea is that people are no longer involved in the drug using activities that was driven by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance have to take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance ought to realize that methadone detox is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification facilities that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very difficult and relapse rates are very high.

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