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

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Chewalla who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall notion is that individuals are no longer wrapped up in the drug seeking behavior that was driven by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Individuals enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically burdensome, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy should realize that methadone detox is considered way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and relapse rates are very high.

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