Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Programs - St. Helens, KY.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in St. Helens who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall notion is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug abusing activities that was brought on by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially challenging, but some people feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to know that methadone detoxification is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detox centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients since detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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