Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Green Camp, OH.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Green Camp who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general idea is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug using behavior that was caused by their addiction because 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 effective as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially difficult, but some people feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detox centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients because detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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