Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Centers - Alcoa, TN.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Alcoa who are dependent on 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 involved in the drug using activities that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. 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 successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance must take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially burdensome, but some feel it is a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone starting on methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients because detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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