Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Damascus, OH.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Damascus who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general idea is that people are no longer involved in the drug abusing activities that was caused by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance must take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially difficult, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to know that methadone detox is considered far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients considering detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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