Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers - Ocean Springs, MS.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Ocean Springs who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall notion is that people are no longer involved in the drug seeking activities that was brought on by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates 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 enrolled in methadone maintenance have to take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically challenging, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance should realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients since detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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