Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - Allardt, TN.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Allardt who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall concept is that people are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially challenging, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those starting on methadone maintenance should realize that methadone detox is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox centers that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients considering detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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