Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Facilities - Friendship, TN.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Friendship who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall idea is that people are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must take it every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically burdensome, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance ought to realize that methadone detox is considered far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox centers that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients because detox can be so challenging and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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