Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Earlville, PA.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Earlville who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general idea is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior that was driven by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and 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 prescription pain killers.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically difficult, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, those starting on methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detox is considered way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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