Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - Antlers, OK.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Antlers who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall notion is that people are no longer involved in the drug seeking activities that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially difficult, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance need to know that methadone detox is considered way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients since detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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