Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facilities - Summerhill, PA.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Summerhill who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall notion is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug seeking activities that was driven by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance must dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically difficult, but some find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and relapse rates are very high.

For All Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities In Summerhill, Click Here.