Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facilities - Mound, TX.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Mound who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been in existence for a very long time, and the overall notion is that individuals are no longer wrapped up in the drug using behavior that was brought on by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satisfies 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 other prescription opioids.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically burdensome, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to know that methadone detoxification is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients since detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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