Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Como, TN.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Como who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general notion is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug abusing behavior that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially challenging, but some people feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, those starting on methadone maintenance need to know that methadone detoxification is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and relapse rates are considerably high.

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