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

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Garber who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general idea is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug abusing behavior that was caused by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Individuals enrolled in methadone maintenance must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially challenging, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to know that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so challenging and relapse rates are considerably high.

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