Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Centers - Snow Shoe, PA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Snow Shoe who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general notion is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug using activities that was caused by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neurons 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 have to take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially difficult, but some find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients because detoxification can be very challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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