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

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Helena who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall concept is that people are no longer engaged in the drug abusing activities that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically difficult, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detox is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification facilities that won't even take methadone maintenance clients since detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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