Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Laurel, MS.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Laurel 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 overall notion is that people are no longer wrapped up 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. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance have to take it daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially burdensome, but some people find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, 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 certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients since detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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