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

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Ardmore who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general concept is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug using behavior that was caused by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically difficult, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detoxification is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox facilities that won't even take methadone maintenance clients because detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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