Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Centers - St. Petersburg, PA.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in St. Petersburg who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall concept is that clients are no longer involved in the drug using activities that was driven 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 receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically challenging, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people starting on methadone maintenance need to know that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox centers that will not accept methadone maintenance clients because detox can be so challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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