Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Centers - Slate Spring, MS.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Slate Spring who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general idea is that clients are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was driven by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose daily 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, someone starting on methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detox is considered way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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