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

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Baneberry who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general idea is that people are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically challenging, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance need to be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is considered way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients considering detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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