Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Centers - Pawhuska, OK.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Pawhuska who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general concept is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug seeking activities that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neural receptors 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 must take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially burdensome, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance ought to know that methadone detox is considered way more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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