Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Programs - Waverly, TN.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Waverly who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general notion is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug using activities that was driven by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neural receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients enrolled in methadone maintenance must dose every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be financially and logistically difficult, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detoxification is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients since detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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