Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Centers - Calvin, OK.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Calvin who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general idea is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug using behavior that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically burdensome, but some people feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance ought to be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox facilities 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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