Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers - Morris, OK.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Morris who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general concept is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug abusing behavior that was caused by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially challenging, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance ought to know that methadone detoxification is considered way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detox 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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