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

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Tylertown who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general idea is that people are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Individuals involved in methadone maintenance have to take it daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance need to know that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and relapse rates are considerably high.

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