Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facilities - Quinton, OK.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Quinton who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall notion is that people are no longer engaged in the drug using behavior that was driven by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and 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.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially burdensome, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy should be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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