Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Centers - Worthington, PA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Worthington who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall concept is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was caused by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially difficult, but some find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to know that methadone detoxification is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients because detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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