Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers - Cranberry Twp, PA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Cranberry Twp who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall idea is that clients are no longer involved in the drug using activities that was caused by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to 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 successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically challenging, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to know that methadone detoxification is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox facilities that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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