Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Facilities - Hawley, PA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Hawley who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall concept is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug using behavior that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satisfies 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 successful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance have to dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially challenging, but some feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. However, people starting on methadone maintenance should be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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