Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - Tipton, TN.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Tipton who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the overall notion is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug using activities that was brought on by their addiction because the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a replacement for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Individuals involved in methadone maintenance have to take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically challenging, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance should realize that methadone detox is considered way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a moderate dosage of methadone, there are some detox centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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