Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facilities - Weikert, PA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Weikert who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall notion is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug using behavior that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically challenging, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those beginning methadone maintenance need to know that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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