Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facilities - Allen, OK.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Allen who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general concept is that clients are no longer involved in the drug abusing behavior that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Individuals enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially burdensome, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance should realize that methadone detox is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so difficult and relapse rates are very high.

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