Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Programs - South Shore, KY.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in South Shore who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general idea is that clients are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was caused 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. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Individuals enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially difficult, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detoxification is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients considering detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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