Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Programs - Jerome, MO.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Jerome who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general idea is that people are no longer involved in the drug abusing behavior that was driven by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically difficult, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, those starting on methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detoxification is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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