Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Programs - Gibson, TN.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Gibson who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall notion is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug using activities that was caused by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance must dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially challenging, but some people feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy ought to realize that methadone detox is considered way more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients because detoxification can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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