Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - Prairie, MS.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Prairie who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall concept is that people are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically burdensome, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to know that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detox facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients considering detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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