Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Programs - Hobart, OK.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Hobart who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general concept is that clients are no longer involved in the drug using activities that was brought on by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance have to take it daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people starting on methadone maintenance should realize that methadone detox is considered far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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