Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facilities - South Fulton, TN.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in South Fulton who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general concept is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was brought on by their addiction due to 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 neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must take it on a daily basis to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically burdensome, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, someone starting on methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detox is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification facilities that will not accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and relapse rates are very high.

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