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

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Glenmoore who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall concept is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug abusing behavior that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially burdensome, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detox is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients because detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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