Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers - Unionville, TN.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Unionville who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This form of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general concept is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Individuals enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy have to take it daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone starting on methadone maintenance need to be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox programs that won't even accept methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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