Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers - Breinigsville, PA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Breinigsville who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall concept is that clients are no longer involved in the drug abusing behavior that was driven by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. 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 effective as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically burdensome, but some people find it a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is considered way more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification facilities that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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