Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facilities - Chelsea, OK.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Chelsea who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall idea is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug using behavior that was driven by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. 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 on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically challenging, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy ought to realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detox programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients considering detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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