Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Programs - Ashland, MS.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Ashland who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall notion is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People involved in methadone maintenance must take it daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically burdensome, but some find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy ought to realize that methadone detox is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox centers that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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