Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Coplay, PA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Coplay who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall concept is that people are no longer involved in the drug seeking behavior that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance have to dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically difficult, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to be aware of the fact that methadone detox is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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