Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Centers - Treichlers, PA.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Treichlers who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall idea is that clients are no longer involved in the drug using activities that was brought on by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially difficult, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detox is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that won't even take methadone maintenance clients considering detoxification can be so challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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