Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Centers - Baldwin Park, CA.

Methadone maintenance is a method of treatment for people in Baldwin Park who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the general concept is that clients are no longer wrapped up in the drug using behavior 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 receptors in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People involved in methadone maintenance therapy have to dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be financially and logistically challenging, but some find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance therapy ought to realize that methadone detox is considered far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are some detoxification centers that will not accept methadone maintenance clients considering detox can be very challenging and rates of relapse are very high.

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