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

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Okolona who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall idea is that people are no longer involved in the drug seeking activities that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially burdensome, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detox is considered way more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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