Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facilities - Mount Holly Springs, PA.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for clients in Mount Holly Springs who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general idea is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates 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 other prescription opioids.

People involved in methadone maintenance therapy must dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially challenging, but some people feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone starting on methadone maintenance need to know that methadone detoxification is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on 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 relapse rates are considerably high.

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