Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Facilities - Roaring Spring, PA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Roaring Spring who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall notion is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug abusing activities that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like 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 effective as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially burdensome, but some people feel it is a better option 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 programs that will not accept methadone maintenance clients considering detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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