Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Centers - Lake Elsinore, CA.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for clients in Lake Elsinore who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This type of treatment has been in existence for decades now, and the general concept is that people are no longer wrapped up in the drug using activities that was caused by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so powerful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must dose every day to avoid withdrawal from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially difficult, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those starting on methadone maintenance therapy should know that methadone detox is known to be way more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once on a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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