Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Centers - Smithville, MS.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Smithville who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general notion is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was driven by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially difficult, but some people find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox centers that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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