Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Programs - Ottsville, PA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Ottsville who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall concept is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug using behavior that was driven by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates 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.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically challenging, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detox is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients considering detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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