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

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Nicoma Park who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general idea is that clients are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was driven by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially challenging, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to know that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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