Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers - Wickhaven, PA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Wickhaven who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall notion is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially burdensome, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance should know that methadone detoxification is considered way more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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