Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Centers - Quincy, PA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Quincy who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall concept is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was driven by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates 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.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance must take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically challenging, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, those starting on methadone maintenance ought to realize that methadone detoxification is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients considering detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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