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

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Reed who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general concept is that people are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was brought on by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance must take it daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically challenging, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detox is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification facilities that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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