Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Programs - Homer City, PA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Homer City who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general notion is that clients are no longer involved in the drug abusing activities that was driven by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates 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 therapy must take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically burdensome, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy should 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 take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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