Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Facilities - Mountain Park, OK.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Mountain Park who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general idea is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug using behavior that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. 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 replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically challenging, but some people find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those starting on methadone maintenance should realize that methadone detox is considered way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detox centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients since detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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