Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Facilities - Bethel, NC.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Bethel who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall notion is that clients are no longer involved in the drug using activities that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

People involved in methadone maintenance must dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically difficult, but some find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to know that methadone detox is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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