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

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Nanticoke who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general idea is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug abusing behavior that was driven by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially challenging, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detoxification is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detox centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients since detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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