Methadone Maintenance - Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities - Sonora, CA.

Methadone maintenance is a form of treatment for individuals in Sonora who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the general notion is that individuals are no longer engaged in the drug seeking behavior that was driven by their addiction since the methadone they are taking satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal symptoms. Similar to heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist which stimulates the same neurons in the brain as heroin. This is what makes methadone so successful as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

People enrolled in methadone maintenance must dose daily to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially challenging, but some people find it a better choice than a heroin addiction. However, people beginning methadone maintenance need to know that methadone detox is known to be far more difficult than even heroin detoxification and withdrawal. Once taking a high dosage of methadone, there are some detox centers that will not take methadone maintenance clients seeing that detoxification can be very difficult and relapse rates are very high.

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