Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities - London, AR.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in London 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 idea is that clients are no longer engaged in the drug using behavior that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Patients involved in methadone maintenance must take it every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially difficult, but some feel it is a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, someone beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detoxification is known to be way more challenging than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be very challenging and relapse rates are very high.

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