Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs - Springfield, AR.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for clients in Springfield who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general notion is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities 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 neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance have to take it daily to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically difficult, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, those starting on methadone maintenance therapy ought to know that methadone detoxification is considered way more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once on a moderate dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification programs that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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