Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Facilities - Luebbering, MO.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for individuals in Luebbering who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general notion is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug using behavior that was caused by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially challenging, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance should realize that methadone detoxification is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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