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

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Lamar who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall notion is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug abusing activities that was caused by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically burdensome, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those starting on methadone maintenance should realize that methadone detoxification is considered way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification centers that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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