Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facilities - Eupora, MS.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Eupora who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall concept is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug abusing behavior that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons 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.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially difficult, but some find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to know that methadone detox is considered way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients because detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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