Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers - Schuylkill Haven, PA.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Schuylkill Haven who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general notion is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically difficult, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those starting on methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detox is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and relapse rates are very high.

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