Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - Bay St. Louis, MS.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Bay St. Louis who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general concept is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug using behavior that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance must dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially challenging, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance should realize that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox centers that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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