Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - New Cordell, OK.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for individuals in New Cordell who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall concept is that people are no longer involved in the drug abusing behavior that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. 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 powerful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically difficult, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance need to know that methadone detox is considered way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox programs that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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