Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Programs - Milburn, OK.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Milburn who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall idea is that people are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior 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 activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Individuals enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially difficult, but some people feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detox is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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