Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Programs - Tchula, MS.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Tchula who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general idea is that clients are no longer involved in the drug using activities that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. 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 effective as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially challenging, but some people find it a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those starting on methadone maintenance therapy ought to be aware of the fact 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 programs that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and relapse rates are very high.

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