Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - Sonora, KY.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Sonora who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall concept is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically challenging, but some people feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy ought to realize that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification programs that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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