Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Programs - Greentown, PA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Greentown who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general idea is that clients are no longer involved in the drug seeking behavior that was driven by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance have to dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially challenging, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, those starting on methadone maintenance need to know that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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