Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facilities - College Grove, TN.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in College Grove who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. 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 abusing activities that was caused by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients involved in methadone maintenance therapy must dose on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be logistically and financially challenging, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification centers that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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