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

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Dravosburg who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general concept is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug abusing activities that was caused by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. 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 successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Individuals enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially burdensome, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to know that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification facilities that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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