Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Programs - Porter Ranch, CA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for people in Porter Ranch who are dependent on heroin or prescription opioid medications. This type of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general notion is that people are no longer engaged in the drug seeking activities that was brought on by their addiction due to the methadone they are taking satisfies cravings and prevents withdrawal. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which activates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a replacement for heroin and prescription pain killers.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must dose every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This might be financially and logistically difficult, but some feel it is a better alternative to a heroin addiction. However, people starting on methadone maintenance should be aware of the fact that methadone detoxification is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are many detox programs that won't even take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detox can be so difficult and rates of relapse are very high.

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