Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Bradyville, TN.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Bradyville who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general concept is that individuals are no longer involved in the drug seeking behavior 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 activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically difficult, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so difficult and relapse rates are very high.

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