Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facilities - Muse, OK.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Muse who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall notion is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug abusing behavior that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance must dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically difficult, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance need to know that methadone detox is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox programs that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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