Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Programs - Shelby Gap, KY.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Shelby Gap who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall idea is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug abusing activities that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance must dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically challenging, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to know that methadone detox is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification facilities that won't even take methadone maintenance clients since detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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