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

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Bybee who are addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general concept is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug using behavior that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

People involved in methadone maintenance therapy must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially difficult, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more challenging 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 challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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