Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - White Pine, TN.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in White Pine who are dependent and addicted to heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the general concept is that people are no longer involved in the drug using activities that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neural receptors 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 therapy must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically difficult, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those starting on methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detox is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detox facilities that won't even take methadone maintenance clients considering detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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