Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Sontag, MS.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Sontag who are dependent on 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 seeking activities that was driven by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

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

For All Drug and Alcohol Rehab Centers In Sontag, Click Here.