Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehab Programs - Piru, CA.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for people in Piru who are addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers. This method of treatment has been around for decades now, and the overall notion is that people are no longer involved in the drug seeking behavior that was caused by their addiction because the methadone that they are being administered satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and prescription pain killers.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must dose every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This may be logistically and financially challenging, but some find it a better alternative to a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, those beginning methadone maintenance therapy need to realize that methadone detoxification is considered far more difficult than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox facilities that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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